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.

 

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 525
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

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