AMD FirePro M5950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro M5950 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD FirePro M5950

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M5950

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 325 MHz
6.8x more texture fill rate: 17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.56 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 600 MHz
11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1314 vs 110
3.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 574 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 January 2011 vs 16 January 2005
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s vs 2.56 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1314 vs 110
PassMark - G2D Mark	574 vs 166

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro M5950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1314

110

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

574

166

Name	AMD FirePro M5950	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark	1314	110
PassMark - G2D Mark	574	166
Geekbench - OpenCL	1135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	1.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	323.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	16.137
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	66.638
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1528
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2590
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1528
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2590
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro M5950	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Whistler	NV41
Launch date	4 January 2011	16 January 2005
Place in performance rating	1006	1009
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	725 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	480
Texture fill rate	17.4 GTexel / s	2.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	716 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	n / a
Form factor	MXM-A
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	57 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0