AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2012
Jan 2013
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1350 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
172.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
22.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
90.37 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.169 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
90.37 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GK104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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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
250W
122W
Suggested PSU
600 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.21x SDI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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