AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM and NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
• Around 26% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 732 MHz
• Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 5200 MHz
• 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3583 vs 1032
• 3.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3583 vs 1032

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm

• Around 39% higher texture fill rate: 164.0 GTexel / s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
• Around 31% higher pipelines: 2688 vs 2048
• Around 4% better floating-point performance: 3,935 gflops vs 3,789 gflops
• Around 6% lower typical power consumption: 235 Watt vs 250 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 3 GB
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 7038 vs 3339
• 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 7038 vs 3339

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla K20Xm

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3583 1032
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3583 1032
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 7038
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3339 7038

Compare specifications (specs)