AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA Tesla C2070

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM and NVIDIA Tesla C2070 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 3.7x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
  • 4.6x more pipelines: 2048 vs 448
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 1,030.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • Around 83% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 3000 MHz
Launch date 8 January 2013 vs 25 July 2011
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 448
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops vs 1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 3000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C2070

  • Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 238 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 3 GB
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3710 vs 3583
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3710 vs 3583
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 238 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 3 GB
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 vs 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 vs 3339

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla C2070

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3583
3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3583
3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3339
3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3339
3351
Name AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA Tesla C2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3583 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3583 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3339 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3339 3351
PassMark - G3D Mark 2840
PassMark - G2D Mark 471
Geekbench - OpenCL 9716
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 908.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.015
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 43.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 93.344
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3245
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3245

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM NVIDIA Tesla C2070

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Fermi
Code name Tahiti GF100
Launch date 8 January 2013 25 July 2011
Place in performance rating 755 756
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 2048 448
Texture fill rate 118.4 GTexel / s 32.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 238 Watt
Transistor count 4,313 million 3,100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 274 mm 248 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Memory bandwidth 264.0 GB / s 144.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz 3000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5