NVIDIA Tesla C870 vs ATI Mobility Radeon-P

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla C870 and ATI Mobility Radeon-P videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Tesla C870

ATI Mobility Radeon-P

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C870

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
3.6x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 166 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 180 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 32 MB
4.8x more memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 332 MHz

Launch date	2 May 2007 vs 1 December 2001
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 332 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon-P

25.9x more texture fill rate: 498 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	498 MTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla C870	ATI Mobility Radeon-P
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 6
Code name	G80	M6
Launch date	2 May 2007	1 December 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,499
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	166 MHz
Floating-point performance	345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	180 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	19.2 GTexel / s	498 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR