AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Tahiti GK104
GPU variant Tahiti PRO (215-0821056) N14E-Q5-A2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 3,540 million
Die size 352 mm² 294 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 8th, 2013
Generation Sea Islands
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor Southern Islands
Successor Volcanic Islands

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz
Boost clock 925 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 750 MHz 3 Gbps effective
GPU clock 601 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 240.0 GB/s 96.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1792 1344
TMUs 112 112
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 28
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
Cache L2 768 KB 512 KB
SMX count 7

Performance

Pixel rate 29.60 GPixel/s 16.83 GPixel/s
Texture rate 103.6 GTexel/s 67.31 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 3.315 TFLOPS 1.615 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 828.8 GFLOPS (1:4) 67.31 GFLOPS (1:24)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 200 W 100 W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 6-pin
Board number C386-42

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 5.1
CUDA 3.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Aug 7th, 2012
Generation Quadro Mobile (Kx000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Reviews 26 in our database

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