NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs AMD FirePro M5950

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM and AMD FirePro M5950 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (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).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

AMD FirePro M5950

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 62% higher core clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 725 MHz
4.4x more texture fill rate: 76.86 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
2.1x more pipelines: 1024 vs 480
3.5x better floating-point performance: 2,460 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 95% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 3600 MHz
64x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 76.687 vs 1.199
2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 890.785 vs 323.699
Around 78% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 28.659 vs 16.137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2015 vs 4 January 2011
Core clock speed	1176 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s vs 17.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 480
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops vs 696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz vs 3600 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687 vs 1.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785 vs 323.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659 vs 16.137

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M5950

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

76.687

1.199

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

890.785

323.699

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

28.659

16.137

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	AMD FirePro M5950
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	76.687	1.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	890.785	323.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	28.659	16.137
PassMark - G3D Mark		1314
PassMark - G2D Mark		574
Geekbench - OpenCL		1135
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.535
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)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM	AMD FirePro M5950
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM206	Whistler
Launch date	26 November 2015	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	1003	1006
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1201 MHz
Core clock speed	1176 MHz	725 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,460 gflops	696.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1024	480
Texture fill rate	76.86 GTexel / s	17.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	716 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		35 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-A
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	112.2 GB / s	57 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7012 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0