AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7970M and NVIDIA Quadro 5010M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 89% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
3.1x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
3.1x better floating-point performance: 2,176 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 2600 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3569 vs 1691
Around 67% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 496 vs 297
Around 6% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17210 vs 16261

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	24 April 2012 vs 22 February 2011
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops vs 691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 2600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569 vs 1691
PassMark - G2D Mark	496 vs 297
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210 vs 16261

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 5010M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3569

1691

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

496

297

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17210

16261

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3569	1691
PassMark - G2D Mark	496	297
Geekbench - OpenCL	17210	16261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	51.181
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1121.002
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	81.527
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	256.99
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3692
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7970M	NVIDIA Quadro 5010M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Wimbledon	GF110
Launch date	24 April 2012	22 February 2011
Place in performance rating	605	607
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Price now		$235.95
Value for money (0-100)		10.17
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,176 gflops	691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	384
Texture fill rate	68 GTexel / s	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	3,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	83.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	2600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5 ECC
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
ECC (Error Correcting Code)