AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Mar 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1653 MHz
Base Clock
-
988 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1114 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
317.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
3072
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
106.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
213.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
6.844 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
213.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM200
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
601 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2