FirePro M5950 vs Radeon HD 4870

Place in performance ranking	682	694
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.27	0.29
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	RV770	Whistler-XT
Market segment	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Release date	25 June 2008 (15 years ago)	13 April 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	no data
Current price	$162 (0.5x MSRP)	$386

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro M5950 has 7% better value for money than ATI HD 4870.

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	800	480
Core clock speed	750 MHz	725 MHz
Number of transistors	956 million	716 million
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	30.00	17.40
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops	696.0 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 4870 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	no data	n/a
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Length	250 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Form factor	no data	MXM-A
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	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	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	115.2 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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.1	5.0
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

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.

ATI HD 4870 3.54
+4.1%

FirePro M5950 3.40

Radeon HD 4870 outperforms FirePro M5950 by 4% 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%

ATI HD 4870 1370
+4.3%

FirePro M5950 1314

Radeon HD 4870 outperforms FirePro M5950 by 4% in Passmark.