AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA Quadro M2000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Apr 2016
Generation
London
Quadro
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1653 MHz
Base Clock
—
796 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1163 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
768
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
37.22 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
55.82 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
1.786 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
55.82 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GM206
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
GM206-875-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
75W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
690
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.