Quadro M5000 SE vs Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking478not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XTGM204
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores19202048
Core clock speed680 MHz861 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1038 MHz
Number of transistors2x1700 Million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data132.9
Floating-point processing powerno data4.252 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz6612 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data211.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 (12_1)
OpenGLno data4.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

M5000 SE has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and Quadro M5000 SE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is a notebook card while Quadro M5000 SE is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire
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NVIDIA Quadro M5000 SE
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