NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M vs AMD FirePro V5900

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Combined performance score

FirePro V5900
3.27
+2.2%

FirePro V5900 outperforms GeForce GTX 560M by 2% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking699703
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money1.150.11
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameCaymanN12E-GS
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date24 May 2011 (12 years old)30 May 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$89 $1198
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro V5900 has 945% better value for money than GTX 560M.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512192
CUDA coresno data192
Core clock speed600 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million1,170 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate19.2024.8 billion/sec
Floating-point performance614.4 gflops595.2 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on FirePro V5900 and GeForce GTX 560M compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 sizeno datalarge
Bus supportno dataPCI-E 2.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length230 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone
SLI optionsno data2-way

Memory

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 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width256 BitUp to 192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sUp to 60 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors1x DVINo outputs

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Blu-Rayno data+
3D Gamingno data+
Optimusno data+

API support

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 API
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.5
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDAno data+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. 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 V5900 3.27
+2.2%
GTX 560M 3.20

FirePro V5900 outperforms GeForce GTX 560M by 2% in our combined benchmark results.


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 V5900 1269
+2.3%
GTX 560M 1241

FirePro V5900 outperforms GeForce GTX 560M by 2% in Passmark.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

900p30−35
−3.3%
31
+3.3%
Full HD35−40
−11.4%
39
+11.4%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 3.27 3.20
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB

We couldn't decide between FirePro V5900 and GeForce GTX 560M. The differences in performance seem too small.

Be aware that FirePro V5900 is a workstation card while GeForce GTX 560M is a notebook one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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