GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs FirePro D500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking470not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameTahitiGM107
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date18 January 2014 (11 years ago)13 March 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536640
Core clock speed725 MHz993 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1124 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate69.6044.96
Floating-point processing power2.227 TFLOPS1.439 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs9640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length279 mmno data
Width2-slotno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount3 GB2 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1270 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth243.8 GB/s28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 January 2014 13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 75 Watt

FirePro D500 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 950M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and 265.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D500 and GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro D500 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition is a notebook one.

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AMD FirePro D500
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