AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA Quadro P4200 Mobile
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2012
Feb 2018
Generation
Southern Islands
Quadro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1502 MHz
Base Clock
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1227 MHz
Boost Clock
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1647 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
192.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
2304
TMUs
128
144
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
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18
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
105.4 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
237.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
7.589 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
237.2 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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118.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.4
CUDA
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6.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
2,310
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,209
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.