AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000 24 GB

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Oct 2010
Mar 2016
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1653 MHz
Base Clock
-
988 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1114 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
24GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
317.4GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
1120
3072
TMUs
56
256
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
3 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
106.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
285.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
6.844 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
213.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Barts
GM200
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
GM200-880-A1
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
8 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
601 mm²

Board Design

TDP
151W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin

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