AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire vs NVIDIA Tesla K10

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and NVIDIA Tesla K10 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

  • Around 14% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 745 MHz
  • Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 225 Watt
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 745 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt vs 225 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K10

  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 2560
  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4800 MHz
Pipelines 2x 1536 vs 2560
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla K10

Name AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire NVIDIA Tesla K10
Geekbench - OpenCL 14029
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 40.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 975.508
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.39
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3632
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3632
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire NVIDIA Tesla K10

Essentials

Architecture GCN Kepler
Code name Neptune CF GK104
Launch date 1 May 2012 1 May 2012
Place in performance rating not rated 978
Type Laptop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $5,099

Technical info

Boost clock speed 900 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz 745 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2560 2x 1536
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 225 Watt
Floating-point performance 2x 2,289 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count 3,540 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size large
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 272 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 11.1 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6

Memory

Memory bus width 2x 256 Bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Maximum RAM amount 2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 160.0 GB / s

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

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