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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 308 | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 79 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA Tesla S870 | NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | PCI |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.0 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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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 |