AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Aug 2018
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
1620 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1815 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
3072
TMUs
96
192
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
384
RT Cores
-
48
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
116.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
348.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
11.15 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
348.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
22.30 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
TU104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
TU104-875-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
13.6 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
545 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
230W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.6
CUDA
-
7.5