Quadro4 980 XGL vs Tesla S1075

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1499
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code nameGT200BNV28 A2
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 June 2008 (16 years ago)12 November 2002 (22 years ago)

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 cores240no data
Core clock speed610 MHz300 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)800 Wattno data
Texture fill rate48.802.400
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPSno data
ROPs328
TMUs808

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 2.0 x16AGP 8x
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount4 GB128 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz325 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 GB/s10.4 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)8.1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.31.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.3-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2008 12 November 2002
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 150 nm

Tesla S1075 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 172.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla S1075 and Quadro4 980 XGL. We've got no test results to judge.


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