AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro M1200 Mobile
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Jan 2017
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
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991 MHz
Boost Clock
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1148 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
640
TMUs
80
40
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
18.37 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
45.92 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
1469 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
45.92 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GM107
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
45W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
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5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.