AMD FirePro M5950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon

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Combined performance score

ATI Mobility
1.33

FirePro M5950 outperforms Mobility Radeon by 155% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking976689
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money0.020.28
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameM6Whistler-XT
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date1 December 2001 (22 years old)13 April 2011 (12 years old)
Current price$202 $386
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro M5950 has 1300% better value for money than ATI Mobility.

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 coresno data480
Core clock speed144 MHz725 MHz
Number of transistors30 million716 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate0.4317.40
Floating-point performanceno data696.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon 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 sizeno datamedium sized
Bus supportno datan/a
InterfaceAGP 4xMXM-A (3.0)
WidthIGPno data
Form factorno dataMXM-A

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 MB1 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed288 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.304 GB/s57 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX7.011.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.34.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

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:

900p9−10
−167%
24
+167%
Full HD10−12
−160%
26
+160%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 1.33 3.39
Recency 1 December 2001 13 April 2011
Maximum RAM amount 16 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 40 nm

The FirePro M5950 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon is a desktop card while FirePro M5950 is a mobile workstation 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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