AMD Radeon HD 8670A vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8670A and NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC 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 8670A

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8670A

2.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 122 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 122 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 600 MHz
7.5x more texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 1536 vs 320
5.6x better floating-point performance: 2,169 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
2.7x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Core clock speed	706 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 320
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8670A	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Kepler
Code name	Mars	GK104
Launch date	2 February 2013	25 January 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,299
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	706 MHz
Floating-point performance	384.0 gflops	2,169 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	1536
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	90.37 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	122 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	172.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	5400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5