AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 574 MHz
  • Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 32.6 GTexel / s vs 32.1 GTexel / s
  • 2.1x more pipelines: 960 vs 448
  • Around 27% better floating-point performance: 1,305.6 gflops vs 1,027.7 gflops
  • 3.1x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 231 Watt
  • Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 2988 MHz
Launch date 25 August 2011 vs 25 July 2011
Core clock speed 680 MHz vs 574 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s vs 32.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines 960 vs 448
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops vs 1,027.7 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 231 Watt
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz vs 2988 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

  • 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 2 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Blackcomb GF100
Launch date 25 August 2011 25 July 2011
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $11,499

Technical info

Core clock speed 680 MHz 574 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops 1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 960 448
Texture fill rate 32.6 GTexel / s 32.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 231 Watt
Transistor count 1,700 million 3,100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video, 2x SDI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 248 mm

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB / s 143.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 3600 MHz 2988 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

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