Radeon HD 8950M vs FirePro M5950

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking724not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.03no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameWhistlerSaturn
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)14 May 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores480768
Core clock speed725 MHz1075 MHz
Number of transistors716 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate17.4051.60
Floating-point processing power0.696 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs2448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Form factorMXM-Ano 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth57 GB/s88 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.3
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 14 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt

FirePro M5950 has 185.7% lower power consumption.

HD 8950M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M5950 and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M5950 is a mobile workstation card while Radeon HD 8950M 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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