Quadro M6000 and Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire - video card comparison
Quadro M6000
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM200
Wimbledon XT
Market segment
Workstation
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
May 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
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Boost clock speed
1114 MHz
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Core clock speed
988 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,844 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
3072
2560
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
200 Watt
Texture fill rate
213.9
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
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Memory bus width
384 Bit
2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
317.4 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort
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DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1
CUDA
5.2
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OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
6.4
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Vulkan
+
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