AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 2011
Aug 2012
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Kepler
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1350 MHz
Base Clock
-
706 MHz
Boost Clock
-
706 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
172.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
1120
1536
TMUs
56
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
22.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
2.169 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
90.37 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Barts
GK104
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
-
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
300W
122W
Suggested PSU
700 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
-
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.175
Shader Model
5.0
6.5 (5.1)
CUDA
-
3.0