Tesla D870 vs Quadro NVS 210S

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1472not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.37no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameC51G80
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 December 2003 (21 year ago)2 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$7,499

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 coresno data128
Core clock speed425 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors75 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)11 Watt520 Watt
Texture fill rate0.8538.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3456 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUs232

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 1.0 x16
WidthIGP2-slot

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1536 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared384 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data76.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 2 May 2007
Power consumption (TDP) 11 Watt 520 Watt

NVS 210S has 4627.3% lower power consumption.

Tesla D870, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 210S and Tesla D870. We've got no test results to judge.


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