Quadro NVS 140M and Radeon HD 8970 OEM - video card comparison
Quadro NVS 140M
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G84M
Tahiti
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
January 2013
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
400 MHz
925 MHz
Floating-point performance
25.6 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
10 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.200
118.4
Memory type
GDDR3, GDDR2
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
3 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
700 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
9.6 GB/s
264.0 GB/s
Shared memory
+
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131