Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and NVS 5100M - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVS 5100M

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GT216

Market segment

Desktop

Mobile workstation

Release date

June 2012

January 2010

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

-

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

550 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,301 gflops

116.16 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

486 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

48

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

134.4

8.800

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

1600 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

25.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.1

Vulkan

-

N/A

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-