AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 and 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 4000 SDI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 375W)

Score

Radeon HD 6970 X2

VS

Quadro FX 4000 SDI

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Apr 2004

Northern Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Rankine

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.100 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

150W

750 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 4x SDI

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

NV41

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

NV41 GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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