Tesla S1070 vs Quadro K5000

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking438not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.63no data
Power efficiency5.92no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameGK104GT200B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date17 August 2012 (12 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 $7,999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536240
Core clock speed706 MHz610 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate90.3748.80
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12880

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 GB/s102.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA3.01.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 August 2012 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 800 Watt

Quadro K5000 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 555.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 and Tesla S1070. We've got no test results to judge.


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