AMD started FirePro M5950 sales 13 April 2011. This is a Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.39% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about FirePro M5950: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	691
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.29
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Whistler-XT
Market segment	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 April 2011 (13 years old)
Current price	$386	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

FirePro M5950's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro M5950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	480	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	725 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	716 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	17.40	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro M5950's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	n/a
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)
Form factor	MXM-A

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro M5950: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	57 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro M5950. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by FirePro M5950, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.0
OpenGL	4.4	of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro M5950. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro M5950 3.39

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro M5950 1314

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

FirePro M5950 6257

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

FirePro M5950 1350

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

FirePro M5950 1137

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro M5950 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	24
Full HD	26

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	8−9
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	9−10
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	8−9
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	9−10
Hitman 3	7−8
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Battlefield 5	8−9
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7
Far Cry 5	6−7
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7
Forza Horizon 4	9−10
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion	3−4

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	6−7
Hitman 3	6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11
Metro Exodus	2−3
Red Dead Redemption 2	2−3
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	7−8

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Far Cry 5	5−6
Far Cry New Dawn	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	2−3
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	3−4
Hitman 3	3−4
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1
Far Cry 5	4−5
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7

Relative perfomance

Overall FirePro M5950 performance compared to nearest competitors among mobile workstation video cards.

FirePro W5130M 107.37

Quadro K2100M 103.54

Quadro 4000M 101.18

FirePro M5950 100

Quadro M500M 89.38

Quadro K620M 88.5

FirePro W4190M 88.5

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M5950 is Quadro 4000M, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Quadro4000M

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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro M5950:

Quadro P500 124.19

Quadro K2100M 103.54

Quadro 4000M 101.18

FirePro M5950 100

Quadro M500M 89.38

Quadro K620M 88.5

Quadro K1100M 82.89