AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro vs NVIDIA Quadro 1000M

I am about to purchase Dell M4600 laptop mainly for work (which doesnt require graphics processing) + gaming, So i was wondering which of these two cards will be better for gaming ?

- AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro with 1GB GDDR5
- NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB GDDR3

This includes the comparison from dell
Dell - Help Me Choose: Graphics Card

Many Thanks !

 

M5950 since its a 6770m

while the 1000M is a gt 525m/gt 540m/ gt 550m/ gt 425m/ gt 435m

 

Even that, the 1000M has more memory ?

 

Time and time again we remind NBR members that VRAM =/= Better Performance. The reason behind as time and time again said is that the overall power the GT 525M/GT 530M etc. is not able to fully utilize 2 GB of VRAM ever in its potential. Therefore the 2 GB is really a gimmick and spamming more VRAM to a GPU that can't handle more than 1 GB maximum is not going to do anything to increase your GPU performance in real-life applications.

Therefore I will side with the FirePro in the regard that the FirePro uses faster GDDR 5 VRAM, so it has twice the bandwidth between the VRAM and the GPU than the 1000M, can utilize its 1 GB of VRAM better than the 1000M ever in any application and it is notably faster in real-life performance. Also didn't I say it was cheaper too?

 

Hello Ramy Maia, did you finally buy the M4600 system ?
What's your experience ?
I'm about to buy an M4600 and I'd like to know if it's a good product ..
Thanks a lot
BR,

 

For game -> M5950
For work -> 1000M

Quadro has better drivers support for CAD softwares, as well as CUDA for Adobe softwares. FirePro also has good support for CAD softwares, but not as good as quadro. Quadro drivers are also more optimized making 1000M faster than M5950 in CAD applications. However, for gaming, raw power of M5950 wins. So you have to balance between the 2.

 

I´m very interested about m4600. but i´m not going to use it for cad, however for video edit with premiere, after effects etc...

In this case what gpu is more interesting?

 

Adobe has some Nvidia only accelerations, but the m5950 is a lot more powerful. Its a tough decision.
I would do more research if you don't know about the nvidia accelerations to see if you can use them and whether they are worth it.

 

Thanks!

Quadro 1000m or 2000m are more expensive than firepro m5950. I have read at PassMark Software - Video Card Benchmark Charts quadro is based on nvidia optimus and cuda, that is very interesting.

On the other hand, firepro is powefull and cheaper.

Perhaps upgrade to Quadro is not usefull for me.

Also I think, i will not going to wait at the m4700 release.

 

forget GPU's for base autocad it dont care, its bound to the first 2 cores of your cpu and could care less.
If you need CUDA go quadro, if you dont get the FP. FYI Adobe is dumping CUDA and moving to OpenCL so you really want the radeons and fire pro's there

for gaming that 5950 is about the same as my q5010

 

On the Dell m4600 and HP 8560 you should be able to change the card from m5950 to Nvidia at a later date after you buy, and you can probably use a Dell or HP card interchangeably.

There's also a possibility there will be some new AMD 7000 series cards you can use on these systems, maybe even the 7850m.

You'll almost definitely be able to upgrade to the next Nvidia Quadros pulled out of the m4700 or hp 8570 or maybe the next series, but it will be a while till they are at all affordable.

All because they are MXM 3.0 type A systems.
Anyway point is whichever way you look at it the quadros probably aren't worth it to buy with the system.