Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200

AMDGPU

GPU AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 1000 MHz – 1050 MHz · 300W Change

NVIDIAGPU

GPU NVIDIA Quadro K4200 771 MHz – 784 MHz · 108W Change

Specifications

Specs Compare

	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition	NVIDIA Quadro K4200
Graphics Card
Release Date	Jun 2012	Jul 2014
Generation	Southern Islands	Quadro
Type	Desktop	Professional
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock	1000 MHz	771 MHz
Boost Clock	1050 MHz	784 MHz
Memory Clock	1500 MHz	1350 MHz
Memory
Memory Size	3GB	4GB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Bus	384bit	256bit
Bandwidth	288.0GB/s	172.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units	32
Shading Units	2048	1344
TMUs	128	112
ROPs	32	32
L1 Cache	16 KB (per CU)	16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache	768 KB	512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate	33.60 GPixel/s	21.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	134.4 GTexel/s	87.81 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)	4.301 TFLOPS	2.107 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)	1075 GFLOPS	87.81 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name	Tahiti	GK104
GPU Variant	Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)	GK104-850-A2
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	300W	108W
Suggested PSU	700 W	300 W
Outputs	1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2	1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	1.1
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
CUDA		3.0