Tesla C870 vs Radeon R7 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking883not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.96no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCarrizoG80
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)2 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,499

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 cores512128
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million681 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt171 Watt
Texture fill rateno data38.40
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3456 TFLOPS
ROPsno data24
TMUsno data32

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1536 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data76.8 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 2 May 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 171 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 8 years, a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 1325% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 (Carrizo) and Tesla C870. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Tesla C870 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 (Carrizo)
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