Quadro M6000 and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Quadro M6000 vs Radeon HD 7870
Quadro M6000
12159
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Quadro M6000
Radeon HD 7870
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM200
Pitcairn XT
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
March 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1114 MHz
-
Core clock speed
988 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,844 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
2800 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
213.9
80.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
317.4 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Eyefinity
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.2.131