AMD Cedar
VS
AMD FirePro M5950
AMD Cedar
VS
AMD FirePro M5950

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
572
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Terascale 2
Cedar
Code name
Whistler
Desktop
Type
Mobile workstation
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Release date
13 April 2011 (10 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
$386
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Value for money
0.48
Cedar
GPU code name
Whistler-XT
Desktop
Market segment
Mobile workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
480
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Core clock speed
725 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
716 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
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Texture fill rate
17.40
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Floating-point performance
696.0 gflops
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
292 million
Number of transistors
716 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
35 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950.

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Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
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Laptop size
medium sized
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Bus support
n/a
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Form factor
MXM-A

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
900 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
57 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.4

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and AMD FirePro M5950 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or AMD FirePro M5950 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD FirePro M5950
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD FirePro M5950
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD FirePro M5950
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD FirePro M5950
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD FirePro M5950
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $386)

Advantages of AMD FirePro M5950

7.08% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (480 vs 80)

So, AMD Cedar or AMD FirePro M5950?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD FirePro M5950 .

AMD Cedar versus AMD FirePro M5950 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
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