GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

Quadro M3000M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 924 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

16,646

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

16,792

passmark_directx_10

N/A

26

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

23

passmark_directx_9

N/A

98

passmark_g2d

N/A

402

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,543

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,139

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

Quadro M3000M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

Shaders

2,048

1,024 -50.0%

TMUs

128

64 -50.0%

ROPs

32

32 0.0%

Compute Units

32

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Clocks

Base Clock

—

823 MHz

Boost Clock

—

924 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

4,096 +33.3%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

29.57 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

59.14 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

1.892 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

59.14 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

250 W

75 W

TDP (W)

250

75 -70.0%

Suggested PSU

600 W

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Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

Quadro Maxwell-M (Mx000M)

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

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

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

Quadro Kepler-M

Successor

Sea Islands

Quadro Pascal-M

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