AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro K4200
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2012
Jul 2014
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1350 MHz
Base Clock
—
771 MHz
Boost Clock
—
784 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
172.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
1344
TMUs
128
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
768 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
21.95 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
87.81 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.107 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
87.81 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
New Zealand
GK104
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
294 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GK104-850-A2
Board Design
TDP
500W
108W
Suggested PSU
900 W
300 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
—
3.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,465
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
702
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.