Tesla S1070 vs Quadro NVS 440

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1449not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.22no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameNV43 A4GT200B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date14 February 2006 (18 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$96.99 $7,999

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 data240
Core clock speed250 MHz610 MHz
Number of transistors146 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)31 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate2.00048.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs880

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length187 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount128 MB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 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 DMS-59No 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-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 February 2006 1 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 31 Watt 800 Watt

NVS 440 has 2480.6% lower power consumption.

Tesla S1070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 440 and Tesla S1070. We've got no test results to judge.


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