AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Nov 2012
Aug 2012
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro Kepler
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
925 MHz
706 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
706 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1350 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
172.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
1536
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
22.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
2.169 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
-
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
294 mm²

Board Design

TDP
185W
122W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.175
Shader Model
5.1
6.5 (5.1)
CUDA
-
3.0