NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD FirePro W600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A and AMD FirePro W600 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 750 MHz
  • Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 39.72 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512
  • Around 65% better floating-point performance: 1,271 gflops vs 768.0 gflops
  • Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2605 vs 1671
  • Around 66% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10348 vs 6231
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2188 vs 1555
  • Around 41% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2188 vs 1555
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3289 vs 3250
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3289 vs 3250
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 13 June 2012
Core clock speed 914 MHz vs 750 MHz
Texture fill rate 39.72 GTexel / s vs 24 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 512
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops vs 768.0 gflops
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2605 vs 1671
Geekbench - OpenCL 10348 vs 6231
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2188 vs 1555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2188 vs 1555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3289 vs 3250
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3289 vs 3250

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W600

  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 603 vs 264
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2331 vs 1973
  • Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2331 vs 1973
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 603 vs 264
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2331 vs 1973
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2331 vs 1973

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2605
1671
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
264
603
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
10348
6231
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1973
2331
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1973
2331
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2188
1555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2188
1555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3289
3250
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3289
3250
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A AMD FirePro W600
PassMark - G3D Mark 2605 1671
PassMark - G2D Mark 264 603
Geekbench - OpenCL 10348 6231
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1973 2331
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1973 2331
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2188 1555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2188 1555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3289 3250
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3289 3250
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 17.708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 585.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.857
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.592
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 93.116

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A AMD FirePro W600

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell GCN 1.0
Code name GM107 Cape Verde
Launch date 13 March 2015 13 June 2012
Place in performance rating 906 907
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $599

Technical info

Boost clock speed 993 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 750 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,271 gflops 768.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 512
Texture fill rate 39.72 GTexel / s 24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 6x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 163 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 64 GB / s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5