Quadro 2000D vs Radeon HD 6970

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Quadro 2000D 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 2000D stacks up against Radeon HD 6970, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Quadro 2000D Radeon HD 6970
Power consumption (TDP) 62 Watt 550 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 DDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
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  • Radeon HD 6970 has 787% more power consumption, than Quadro 2000D.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon HD 6970 has 1 GB more memory, than Quadro 2000D.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Quadro 2000D is build with Fermi architecture, and Radeon HD 6970 - with Terascale 2.
  • Quadro 2000D and Radeon HD 6970 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6970 is 89 mm longer, than Quadro 2000D.
  • Memory clock speed of Quadro 2000D is 1225 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 2−3 14−16
ultra / 1080p 0−1 9−10
QHD / 1440p 0−1 3−4
low / 720p 12−14 30−35
medium / 1080p 3−4 18−20
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 266% more, than Quadro 2000D.

Full Specs

  Quadro 2000D Radeon HD 6970
Architecture Fermi Terascale 2
Code name GF106 Cayman
Type Workstation Desktop
Release date 5 October 2011 14 December 2010
Pipelines 192 1536
Core clock speed 625 MHz
Boost Clock 880 MHz
Transistor count 1,170 million 2,640 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 20.00 84.48
Floating-point performance 480.0 gflops 2,703.4 gflops
Length 178 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2600 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth 41.6 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 2.1
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 31 Mh/s 273 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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