
Radeon HD 6970 and Quadro K1200 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Quadro K1200
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Quadro K1200
3017
Radeon HD 6970
Quadro K1200
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Cayman
GM107
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
December 2010
January 2015
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1124 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1058 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,151 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
512
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
35.97
Memory type
DDR5
128 Bit
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
Up to 80 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
mDP mDP mDP mDP
Number of simultaneous displays
-
4
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12
CUDA
-
5.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5
Vulkan
-
+
3D Vision Pro
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
Mosaic
-
+
nView Desktop Management
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-