FirePro M5950 vs GeForce GTX 660

Place in performance ranking	405	697
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.38	0.29
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GK106	Whistler-XT
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	6 September 2012 (11 years ago)	13 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$229	no data
Current price	$172 (0.8x MSRP)	$386

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

GTX 660 has 721% better value for money than FirePro M5950.

Detailed specifications

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 cores	960	480
CUDA cores	960	no data
Core clock speed	980 MHz	725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,540 million	716 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	78.4 billion/sec	17.40
Floating-point performance	1,981 gflops	696.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 660 and FirePro M5950 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 size	no data	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0	n/a
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Form factor	no data	MXM-A
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	no 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB/s	57 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One DisplayPort	No outputs
Multi monitor support	4 displays	no data
HDMI	+	no data
HDCP	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	Internal	no data

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray	+	no data
3D Gaming	+	no data
3D Vision	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.3	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	no 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.

GTX 660 10.34
+204%

FirePro M5950 3.40

GeForce GTX 660 outperforms FirePro M5950 by 204% based on our aggregated 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%

GTX 660 3998
+204%

FirePro M5950 1314

GeForce GTX 660 outperforms FirePro M5950 by 204% in Passmark.

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%

GTX 660 11285
+857%

FirePro M5950 1179

GeForce GTX 660 outperforms FirePro M5950 by 857% in GeekBench 5 OpenCL.

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:

900p	70−75 +192%	24 −192%
Full HD	47 +95.8%	24 −95.8%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.34	3.40
Recency	6 September 2012	13 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	35 Watt