FirePro M5950: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

FirePro M5950 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.41% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started FirePro M5950 sales 4 January 2011. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-A (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FirePro M5950: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking731
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency6.68of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameWhistler
Market segmentMobile workstation
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

FirePro M5950's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro M5950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores480of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed725 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors716 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate17.40of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.696 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs8of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs24of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro M5950 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sized
Bus supportn/a
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)
Form factorMXM-A

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro M5950: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed900 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth57 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Shared memory-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro M5950. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by FirePro M5950, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro M5950. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 M5950 3.41

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

FirePro M5950 1314

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

FirePro M5950 1350

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

FirePro M5950 6257

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.

FirePro M5950 1135

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FirePro M5950 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

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

900p24
Full HD26

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 6−7

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Battlefield 5 7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
Far Cry 5 7−8
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 24−27
Metro Exodus 5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Battlefield 5 7−8
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
Far Cry 5 7−8
Far Cry New Dawn 9−10
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 24−27
Metro Exodus 5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2 8−9
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 10−11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 8−9
Cyberpunk 2077 6−7
Far Cry 5 7−8
Forza Horizon 4 18−20
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
Watch Dogs: Legion 40−45

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 8−9

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 6−7
Far Cry New Dawn 5−6

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3−4
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
Far Cry 5 4−5
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
Hitman 3 8−9
Horizon Zero Dawn 8−9
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 2−3
Watch Dogs: Legion 21−24

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 7−8

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 2−3
Far Cry New Dawn 2−3

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2−3
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 1−2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1−2
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1
Far Cry 5 2−3
Forza Horizon 4 1−2
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 4−5

Closest competitors

FirePro M5950's performance relative to its closest rivals among mobile workstation graphics cards.


FirePro M4000 121.11
Quadro K2100M 103.52
FirePro M5950 100
Quadro 4000M 96.77
Quadro K620M 88.56

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro M5950 is Quadro 4000M, which is slower by 3% and lower by 9 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FirePro M5950:

Quadro K3000M 124.93
Quadro P500 124.05
Quadro K2100M 103.52
FirePro M5950 100
Quadro 4000M 96.77
Quadro K620M 88.56
Quadro M500M 88.27

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