NVIDIA Tesla S870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla S870 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA Tesla S870

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla S870

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 90 nm
20x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 800 Watt

Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 800 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla S870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Name	NVIDIA Tesla S870	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
PassMark - G2D Mark		308
PassMark - G3D Mark		79

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla S870	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	G80	C78
Launch date	2 May 2007	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$11,999
Place in performance rating	not rated	559
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	4x 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	4x 128
Texture fill rate	4x 19.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	800 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCI
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4x 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	4x 76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	4x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3