Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and Tesla M6 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Tesla M6

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GM204

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

June 2012

August 2015

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Boost clock speed

1050 MHz

1180 MHz

Core clock speed

-

930 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,301 gflops

3,625 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

134.4

113.3

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1500 MHz

5012 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

160.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

No outputs

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

+

-

DisplayPort support

-

-

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

5.2

Mantle

-

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.1.126

AppAcceleration

-

-

CrossFire

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

-

-

PowerTune

-

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

-

-