FirePro M5950 vs FirePro M8900

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated727
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data6.79
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBlackcombWhistler
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2011 (13 years ago)4 January 2011 (13 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 cores960480
Core clock speed680 MHz725 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6417.40
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS0.696 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs4824

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 sizelargemedium sized
Bus supportn/an/a
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-A (3.0)
Form factorMXM-BMXM-A
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth115 GB/s57 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.05.0
OpenGL4.44.4
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2011 4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 35 Watt

FirePro M8900 has an age advantage of 3 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

FirePro M5950, on the other hand, has 114.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M8900 and FirePro M5950. We've got no test results to judge.


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