Quadro 7000 vs Radeon HD 6970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 7000 and Radeon HD 6970, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Quadro 7000 stacks up against Radeon HD 6970, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 7000 Radeon HD 6970
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 550 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR5
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6970 has 169% more power consumption, than Quadro 7000.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 7000 has 4 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 7000 is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 6970 - with Terascale 2.
  • Quadro 7000 and Radeon HD 6970 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6970 is 19 mm longer, than Quadro 7000.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 7000 is 2029 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 18−20 14−16
ultra / 1080p 10−11 9−10
QHD / 1440p 4−5 3−4
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 30−35
medium / 1080p 21−24 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 7000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 20% more, than Radeon HD 6970.

Full Specs

  Quadro 7000 Radeon HD 6970
Architecture Fermi 2.0 Terascale 2
Code name GF110 Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 2 May 2012 14 December 2010
Pipelines 512 1536
Core clock speed 651 MHz
Boost Clock 880 MHz
Transistor count 3,000 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 41.66 84.48
Floating-point performance 1,332 gflops 2,703.4 gflops
Length 248 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3404 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 163.4 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 273 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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