AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro M5000M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Sea Islands
Quadro Mobile
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
1536
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
62.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
93.60 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
N16E-Q5-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
398 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
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
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5.2
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.