NVIDIA GRID K140Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K140Q and AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K140Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 500 Watt
Launch date 28 June 2013 vs 31 August 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 500 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 155.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
  • 21.3x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 192
  • 23.2x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,789 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 2x 3 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 192
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Maximum memory size 2x 3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1782 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K140Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name NVIDIA GRID K140Q AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 728
PassMark - G2D Mark 457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID K140Q AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Code name GK107 New Zealand
Launch date 28 June 2013 31 August 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $125 $899
Place in performance rating 325 328
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 326.4 gflops 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 192 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 13.6 GTexel / s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 292 mm
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.51 GB / s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5