Tesla S1070 vs Radeon RX 5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.30no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameNavi 14GT200B
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2019 (5 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$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 cores1408240
Core clock speedno data610 MHz
Boost clock speed1845 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate162.448.80
Floating-point processing power5.196 TFLOPS0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8880

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 4.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length180 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 1 June 2008
Chip lithography 7 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 800 Watt

RX 5500 has an age advantage of 11 years, a 685.7% more advanced lithography process, and 627.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500 and Tesla S1070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500 is a desktop card while Tesla S1070 is a workstation one.


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