FirePro M5950 vs Radeon Pro 450

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between FirePro M5950 and Radeon Pro 450, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the FirePro M5950 stacks up against Radeon Pro 450, check out specs charts below.

FirePro M5950 and Radeon Pro 450 are Laptop Graphics Cards

Note: FirePro M5950 and Radeon Pro 450 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with FirePro M5950 or Radeon Pro 450 here:

Main Specs

  FirePro M5950 Radeon Pro 450
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 35 Watt
Interface MXM-A (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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  • Both graphics cards have the same power consumption of 35 Watt.
  • FirePro M5950 is connected by MXM-A (3.0), and Radeon Pro 450 uses PCIe 3.0 x8 interface.
  • Radeon Pro 450 has 1 GB more memory, than FirePro M5950.
  • Both cards are used in Laptops.
  • FirePro M5950 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon Pro 450 - with Polaris.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon Pro 450 is 75 MHz higher, than FirePro M5950.
  • FirePro M5950 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon Pro 450 - by 14 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon Pro 450 is 4180 MHz higher, than FirePro M5950.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 4−5 14−16
ultra / 1080p 2−3 8−9
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 14−16 27−30
medium / 1080p 6−7 16−18
The average gaming FPS of Radeon Pro 450 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 142% more, than FirePro M5950.

Full Specs

  FirePro M5950 Radeon Pro 450
Architecture Terascale 2 Polaris
Code name Whistler-XT Polaris 11
Type Mobile workstation Mobile workstation
Release date 13 April 2011 27 October 2016
Pipelines 480 640
Core clock speed 725 MHz 800 MHz
Transistor count 716 million 3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 14 nm
Texture fill rate 17.40 32.00
Floating-point performance 696.0 gflops 1,024 gflops
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth 57 GB/s 81.28 GB/s
Shared memory - -
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
Shader Model 5.0 6.4
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan N/A 1.2.131
FreeSync +
Bus support n/a
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 67 Mh/s 127 Mh/s
Laptop size medium sized large
Form factor MXM-A
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