NVIDIA Tesla C870 vs NVIDIA Quadro 400

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Tesla C870 and 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla C870 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)

80 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (32W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla C870 +220%

0.346 TFLOPS

Quadro 400

0.108 TFLOPS

Tesla C870

VS

Quadro 400

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2011

Tesla

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

770 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.32GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

6

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

96 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

345.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

108.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

GT216

-

GPU Variant

GT216 GL

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

32W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.0

CUDA

1.2

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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