Quadro P1000 vs Radeon HD 5970

Find out if it is worth upgrading your current GPU setup by comparing Quadro P1000 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 P1000 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.

Main Specs

  Quadro P1000 Radeon HD 5970
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 294 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 5970 has 525% more power consumption, than Quadro P1000.
  • Quadro P1000 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Radeon HD 5970 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Quadro P1000 has 3 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 5970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro P1000 is build with Pascal architecture, and Radeon HD 5970 - with TeraScale 2.
  • Core clock speed of Quadro P1000 is 768 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5970.
  • Quadro P1000 is manufactured by 14 nm process technology, and Radeon HD 5970 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 5970 is 160 mm longer, than Quadro P1000.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro P1000 is 2008 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 5970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 21−24 10−12
ultra / 1080p 12−14 6−7
QHD / 1440p 8−9 1−2
4K / 2160p 5−6
low / 720p 40−45 24−27
medium / 1080p 27−30 14−16
The average gaming FPS of Quadro P1000 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 109% more, than Radeon HD 5970.

Full Specs

  Quadro P1000 Radeon HD 5970
Architecture Pascal TeraScale 2
Code name GP107 Hemlock
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 1 February 2017 18 November 2009
Pipelines 512 1600
Core clock speed 1493 MHz 725 MHz
Boost Clock 1519 MHz
Transistor count 3,300 million 2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 59.20 58.00
Floating-point performance 1,894 gflops 2x 2,320.0 gflops
Length 145 mm 305 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB/s 128.0 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model 6.4 5.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.4
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 N/A
CUDA 6.1
Optimus +
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