AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro M5500 Mobile
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Apr 2016
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1165 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
74.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
149.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
4.772 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
149.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
150W
Suggested PSU
700 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
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