Radeon HD 6870 and Quadro M5000 SE - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6870

Quadro M5000 SE

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

RV940 Barts

GM204

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

October 2010

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Bus support

PCIe 2.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

900 MHz

1038 MHz

Core clock speed

-

861 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,016.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1120

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

50.40

132.9

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1050 MHz

6612 MHz

Memory bandwidth

134.4 GB/s

211.6 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

-

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

-

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

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