NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7970

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q and AMD Radeon HD 7970 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 28% higher boost clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • Around 28% higher texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 28% better floating-point performance: 4,833 gflops vs 3,789 gflops
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • 3.6x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1375 MHz
Launch date 30 August 2015 vs 22 December 2011
Boost clock speed 1180 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops vs 3,789 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1375 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970

  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 9448 vs 5460
  • Around 73% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 9448 vs 5460
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3704 vs 3526
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3704 vs 3526
Specifications (specs)
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9448 vs 5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9448 vs 5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3704 vs 3526
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3704 vs 3526

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5460
9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5460
9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3526
3704
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3526
3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3350
Name NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q AMD Radeon HD 7970
PassMark - G3D Mark 5203
PassMark - G2D Mark 311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5460 9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5460 9448
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3526 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3526 3704
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 3350
Geekbench - OpenCL 34541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 84.381
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1389.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 8.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 101.929
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 481.76
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2276

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q AMD Radeon HD 7970

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM204 Tahiti
Launch date 30 August 2015 22 December 2011
Place in performance rating 474 483
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $549

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1180 MHz 925 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 2048
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s 118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 4,313 million
Stream Processors 2048

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 274 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.4 GB / s 264 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync