AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

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
8x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 600 Watt
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 3000 MHz

Launch date	25 August 2011 vs 25 July 2011
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 574 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 600 Watt
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 3000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000

7.3x more texture fill rate: 2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 32.6 GTexel / s
Around 7% higher pipelines: 2x 512 vs 960
Around 80% better floating-point performance: 2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 1,305.6 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 2x 6 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 32.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 512 vs 960
Floating-point performance	2x 1,175.6 gflops vs 1,305.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 6 GB vs 2 GB

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition	NVIDIA Quadro Plex 7000
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)		$14,999
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	574 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops	2x 1,175.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	960	2x 512
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s	2x 36.7 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	600 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	3,100 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI, 2x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Length		522 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 6 GB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s	2x 144.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	3000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5