Tesla C2070 vs Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated509
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data2.45
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGP100GF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date20 June 2016 (8 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,599 no data

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 cores3584448
Core clock speed1190 MHz574 MHz
Boost clock speed1329 MHzno data
Number of transistors15,300 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt238 Watt
Texture fill rate297.732.14
Floating-point processing power9.526 TFLOPS1.028 TFLOPS
ROPs9648
TMUs22456

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
Length267 mm248 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 8-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 typeHBM2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GB6 GB
Memory bus width3072 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed715 MHz747 MHz
Memory bandwidth549.1 GB/s143.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA6.02.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2016 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 16 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 238 Watt

Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla C2070, on the other hand, has 5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB and Tesla C2070. We've got no test results to judge.


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