Quadro K3000M and Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition - video card comparison
Quadro K3000M
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N14E-Q1
Blackcomb
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
June 2012
August 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
654 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
753.4 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
576
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
31.39
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2800 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
89.6 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
Optimus
+
-