GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 7970
CORE STATE
Tahiti
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2012
VS
GEFORCE
Quadro 2000M
CORE STATE
GF106
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
55 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Fermi
PROCESS
40 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2011
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 7970
Quadro 2000M
Core Specs
Shading Units
2,048
192
-90.6%
Shaders
2,048
192
-90.6%
TMUs
128
32
-75.0%
ROPs
32
16
-50.0%
Compute Units
32
—
SM Count
—
4
Clocks
GPU Clock
925 MHz
550 MHz
Shader Clock
—
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
900 MHz
1800 Mbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
2 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
2,048
-33.3%
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
384 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
264.0 GB/s
28.80 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
256 KB
Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
4.400 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
17.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
3.789 TFLOPS
422.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)
35.20 GFLOPS (1:12)
Power
TDP
250 W
55 W
TDP (W)
250
55
-78.0%
Suggested PSU
600 W
—
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Fermi
GPU Name
Tahiti
GF106
Generation
Southern Islands
(HD 7900)
Quadro Fermi-M
(x000M)
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
4,313 million
1,170 million
Die Size
352 mm²
238 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
12.3M / mm²
4.9M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
1.1
CUDA
—
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
5.1
Physical
Slot Width
Dual-slot
MXM Module
Length
275 mm
10.8 inches
—
Height
111 mm
4.4 inches
—
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Other
Launch Price
549 USD
—
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Quadro FX Mobile
Successor
Sea Islands
Quadro Kepler-M