Quadro 7000 vs Radeon HD 5970

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro 7000 and Radeon HD 5970. Here you can take a closer look at graphics cards specs, such as core clock speed, memory type and size, display connectors, etc. The price, overall benchmark and gaming performances are usually defining factors when it comes to choosing between Quadro 7000 and Radeon HD 5970. Make sure that the graphics card has compatible dimensions and will properly fit in your new or current computer case. Also these graphics cards may have different system power recommendations, so take that into consideration and upgrade your PSU if necessary.
Quadro 7000
Radeon HD 5970

Main Specs

  Quadro 7000 Radeon HD 5970
Power consumption (TDP) 204 Watt 294 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
 
  • Radeon HD 5970 has 44% more power consumption, than Quadro 7000.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Quadro 7000 has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 7000 is build with Fermi 2.0 architecture, and Radeon HD 5970 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 5970 is 74 MHz higher, than Quadro 7000.
  • Quadro 7000 and Radeon HD 5970 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 5970 is 57 mm longer, than Quadro 7000.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 5970 is 596 MHz higher, than Quadro 7000.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 18−20 10−12
ultra / 1080p 10−11 6−7
QHD / 1440p 4−5 1−2
4K / 2160p 4−5
low / 720p 35−40 24−27
medium / 1080p 21−24 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Quadro 7000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 63% more, than Radeon HD 5970.

Full Specs

  Quadro 7000 Radeon HD 5970
Architecture Fermi 2.0 TeraScale 2
Code name GF110 Hemlock
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 2 May 2012 18 November 2009
Pipelines 512 1600
Core clock speed 651 MHz 725 MHz
Transistor count 3,000 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 41.66 58.00
Floating-point performance 1,332 gflops 2x 2,320.0 gflops
Length 248 mm 305 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3404 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 163.4 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.1 1.2
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0