NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2015
Jan 2013
Generation
GRID
Sea Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1536
2048
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
-
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
250W
Suggested PSU
300 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.1