NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2015
Aug 2012
Generation
Quadro
Southern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
861 MHz
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Boost Clock
1038 MHz
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Memory Clock
1653 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
211.6GB/s
264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
66.43 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
132.9 GTexel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.252 TFLOPS
3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
132.9 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
New Zealand
GPU Variant
GM204-875-A1
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Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
500W
Suggested PSU
450 W
900 W
Outputs
1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.