NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M vs AMD FirePro M5950

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M and AMD FirePro M5950. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

GT215GPU NameWhistler
N10E-GSModel numberWhistler XT GL
Tesla 2.0ArchitectureTeraScale 2
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size40 nm
727 millionTransistors716 million
144 mm²Die Size104 mm²

Graphics Card

Jun 15th, 2009Release DateJan 4th, 2011
GeForce 200MFamilyFirePro Mobile
(Mx900)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
PCIe 2.0 x16Bus InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size1024 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR5
128 bitMemory Bus128 bit
57.60 GB/sBandwidth57.60 GB/s

Performance

4.400 GPixel/sPixel fillrate5.800 GPixel/s
17.60 GTexel/sTexture fillrate17.40 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance696.0 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

900 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
Memory Clock900 MHz
3.6 Gbps effective
550 MHzGPU Clock725 MHz

Render Config

96Shading Units480
32TMUs24
8ROPs8
64 KBL2 Cache256 KB

Board Design

38 WThermal design power (TDP)35 W
No outputsDisplay ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

11.1 (10_1)DirectX11.2 (11_0)
3.3OpenGL4.4
1.1OpenCL1.2
N/AVulkanN/A
4.1Shader Model5.0