Quadro FX Go 1000 vs FirePro M5950

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking794not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.89no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)no data
GPU code nameWhistlerno data
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2011 (14 years ago)25 February 2004 (21 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 cores4804
Core clock speed725 MHzno data
Number of transistors716 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.696 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs24no data
L1 Cache48 KBno data
L2 Cache256 KBno data

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedmedium sized
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)no data
Form factorMXM-Ano 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 typeGDDR5128
Maximum RAM amount1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth57 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsno data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)no data
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4no data
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 25 February 2004
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

FirePro M5950 has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

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