AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA Quadro K5200
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2010
Jul 2014
Generation
Northern Islands
Quadro
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
—
667 MHz
Boost Clock
—
771 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
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Shading Units
1120
2304
TMUs
56
192
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
512 KB
—
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
37.01 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
148.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
3.553 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
—
148.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Barts
GK110B
GPU Variant
Barts XT(215-0798000)
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Architecture
TeraScale 2
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
1.7 billion
7.08 billion
Die Size
255 mm²
561 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
150W
Suggested PSU
450 W
450 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
2x DVI2x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
—
3.5
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
2,072
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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941
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.