Product Compare
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 440 PCIe x16 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Feb 2006 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | Quadro NVS | Sea Islands |
| Type | Professional | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1855 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 2495 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 250 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 128MB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 8.000GB/s | 264.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 96 | 32 |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 8 | 128 |
| ROPs | 4 | 32 |
| RT Cores | 96 | |
| L1 Cache | 256 KB per Array | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 6 MB | 768 KB |
| L3 Cache | 96 MB | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 1.000 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 2.000 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 122.6 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 61.32 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1.916 TFLOPS | 947.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | NV43 | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | NVS440 NPB | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) |
| Architecture | Curie | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 110 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 0.146 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 154 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 31W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 200 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 2x DMS-59 | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 2.0 (full)2.1 (partial) | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | 5.1 |