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).

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

NVIDIA Tesla K10

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	979
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