NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1328 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 27% higher memory clock speed: 7012 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Launch date 21 February 2018 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1328 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz vs 5500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

  • 21.9x more texture fill rate: 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 96.8 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 1280
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 2x 3,789 gflops vs 3,098 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 96.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2048 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops vs 3,098 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Name NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 8801
PassMark - G2D Mark 451
Geekbench - OpenCL 34289
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12948
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12948
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.707

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro P3200 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP104 New Zealand
Launch date 21 February 2018 31 August 2012
Place in performance rating 340 338
Type Workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1476 MHz
Core clock speed 1328 MHz 925 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,098 gflops 2x 3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 96.8 GTexel / s 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 4,313 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 292 mm
Supplementary power connectors 3x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 168.3 GB / s 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 7012 MHz 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5