NVIDIA Quadro M5000 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2015
Jul 2011
Generation
Quadro
Northern Islands
Type
Professional
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
861 MHz
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Boost Clock
1038 MHz
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Memory Clock
1653 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
211.6GB/s
134.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1120
TMUs
128
56
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
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14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
66.43 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
132.9 GTexel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.252 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
132.9 GFLOPS
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Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Barts
GPU Variant
GM204-875-A1
Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
255 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
300W
Suggested PSU
450 W
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI4x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.