Product Compare
NVIDIA GRID M60 8Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Aug 2015 | Jan 2012 |
| Generation | GRID | Southern Islands |
| Type | Professional | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 557 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1178 MHz | |
| 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 | 2048 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 128 | 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 | 75.39 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 150.8 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.825 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 150.8 GFLOPS | 947.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM204 | Tahiti |
| 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 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 225W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 (1.2) |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.170 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.5 (5.1) |