Radeon RX 7900 GRE vs Tesla S870

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated21
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data18.31
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG80Navi 31
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date2 May 2007 (17 years ago)27 July 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$11,999 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 cores1285120
Core clock speed600 MHz1287 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2245 MHz
Number of transistors681 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)800 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate38.40718.4
Floating-point processing power0.3456 TFLOPS45.98 TFLOPS
ROPs24160
TMUs32320
Ray Tracing Coresno data80

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 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data276 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1536 MB16 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth76.8 GB/s576.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.2
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 May 2007 27 July 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1536 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 800 Watt 260 Watt

RX 7900 GRE has an age advantage of 16 years, a 966.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1700% more advanced lithography process, and 207.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla S870 and Radeon RX 7900 GRE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla S870 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a desktop one.


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