Tesla S1070 vs Radeon HD 7770

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking599not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.44no data
Power efficiency4.91no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameCape VerdeGT200B
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date15 February 2012 (12 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 $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 cores640240
Core clock speed1000 MHz610 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate40.0048.80
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPS0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4080

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 3.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length210 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 amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1125 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth72 GB/s102.4 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 February 2012 1 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 800 Watt

HD 7770 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 96.4% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

Tesla S1070, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7770 and Tesla S1070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7770 is a desktop card while Tesla S1070 is a workstation one.


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