NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC and AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC

Around 33% higher texture fill rate: 90.37 GTexel / s vs 68 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 175 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 4200 MHz

Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s vs 68 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 4200 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 706 MHz
Around 4% higher pipelines: 1600 vs 1536
Around 25% better floating-point performance: 2,720 gflops vs 2,169 gflops

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 706 MHz
Pipelines	1600 vs 1536
Floating-point performance	2,720 gflops vs 2,169 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC	AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	TeraScale 2
Code name	GK104	Cypress
Launch date	25 January 2013	14 January 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,299
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,169 gflops	2,720 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1536	1600
Texture fill rate	90.37 GTexel / s	68 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x SDI	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	282 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB / s	134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	4200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5