Product Compare

AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2013 Jun 2015
Generation Volcanic Islands Quadro
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 1000 MHz 861 MHz
Boost Clock 1050 MHz 1038 MHz
Memory Clock 1400 MHz 1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 179.2GB/s 211.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 33.60 GPixel/s 66.43 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 84.00 GTexel/s 132.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.688 TFLOPS 4.252 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 168.0 GFLOPS 132.9 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Curacao GM204
GPU Variant Curacao XT(215-0848004) GM204-875-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 398 mm²
Board Design
TDP 180W 150W
Suggested PSU 450 W 450 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 5.2