Radeon HD 7870 XT and Quadro M3000 SE - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Quadro M3000 SE
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Tahiti
GM204
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
November 2012
October 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
1,106 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
5,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
34.56
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
160.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126