AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5100M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Jul 2013
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
900 MHz
Base Clock
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771 MHz
Boost Clock
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771 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
115.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
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Shading Units
1536
1536
TMUs
96
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
24.67 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
98.69 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.369 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
98.69 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GK104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
N15E-Q5-A2
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
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3.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
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1,273
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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507
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.