Quadro P2000 vs Radeon HD 6970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro P2000 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 P2000 stacks up against Radeon HD 6970, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro P2000 Radeon HD 6970
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 550 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR5
Maximum RAM amount 5 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6970 has 633% more power consumption, than Quadro P2000.
  • Quadro P2000 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 6970 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro P2000 has 3 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro P2000 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon HD 6970 - with Terascale 2.
  • Quadro P2000 is manufactured by 16 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 6970 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6970 is 66 mm longer, than Quadro P2000.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P2000 is 5633 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 14−16
ultra / 1080p 24−27 9−10
QHD / 1440p 18−20 3−4
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−35
medium / 1080p 45−50 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Quadro P2000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 153% more, than Radeon HD 6970.

Full Specs

  Quadro P2000 Radeon HD 6970
Architecture Pascal Terascale 2
Code name GP106 Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 6 February 2017 14 December 2010
Pipelines 1024 1536
Core clock speed 1076 MHz
Boost Clock 1480 MHz 880 MHz
Transistor count 4,400 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 94.72 84.48
Floating-point performance 3,031 gflops 2,703.4 gflops
Length 201 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 160 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7008 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 140.2 GB/s
DirectX 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.131
CUDA 6.1
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.19 kh/s
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 273 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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