AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and NVIDIA Quadro 2000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

  • Around 28% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 32.0 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
  • 4.2x more pipelines: 800 vs 192
  • 2.7x better floating-point performance: 1,280.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
  • Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2600 MHz
Core clock speed 800 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.0 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Pipelines 800 vs 192
Floating-point performance 1,280.0 gflops vs 480.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 2600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 2000

  • Around 21% lower typical power consumption: 62 Watt vs 75 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 62 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Name AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand NVIDIA Quadro 2000
PassMark - G3D Mark 947
PassMark - G2D Mark 303
Geekbench - OpenCL 3880
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.229
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 258.26
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.885
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 19.02
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2668
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1600
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1682
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2668

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand NVIDIA Quadro 2000

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi
Code name Broadway GF106
Launch date 4 January 2011 24 December 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1293
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $599
Price now $87.99
Value for money (0-100) 17.65

Technical info

Core clock speed 800 MHz 625 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,280.0 gflops 480.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 800 192
Texture fill rate 32.0 GTexel / s 20 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 62 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,170 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 178 mm
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 41.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 2600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5