NVIDIA Tesla M2070 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla M2070

ATI Radeon HD 4870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 30 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 25 June 2008
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 30 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870

Around 31% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 574 MHz
Around 79% higher pipelines: 800 vs 448
Around 16% better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 1,030.4 gflops
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 15% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 3132 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 574 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 448
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops vs 1,030.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 3132 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4870

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	ATI Radeon HD 4870
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	910.236
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	46.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	94.442
PassMark - G3D Mark		1370
PassMark - G2D Mark		46
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3346
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3346

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	ATI Radeon HD 4870
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF100	RV770
Launch date	25 July 2011	25 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$299
Place in performance rating	1322	1325
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	1,200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	800
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	30 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	250 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5