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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2012 Jul 2014
Generation Southern Islands Quadro
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 667 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz 771 MHz
Memory Clock 1500 MHz 1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 256bit
Bandwidth 288.0GB/s 192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 32
Shading Units 2048 2304
TMUs 128 192
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 37.01 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 134.4 GTexel/s 148.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 4.301 TFLOPS 3.553 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1075 GFLOPS 148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti GK110B
GPU Variant Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4.313 billion 7.08 billion
Die Size 352 mm² 561 mm²
Board Design
TDP 300W 150W
Suggested PSU 700 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 3.5