AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2011
Oct 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
-
823 MHz
Boost Clock
-
924 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
1120
1024
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
29.57 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
59.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
1.892 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
59.14 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GM204
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
75W
Suggested PSU
700 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
-
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2