NVIDIA Tesla C870 vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Tesla C870 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M 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 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

32 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla C870 +28%

0.346 TFLOPS

Quadro 500M

0.269 TFLOPS

Tesla C870

VS

Quadro 500M

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

Tesla

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

96 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

345.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

268.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

22.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

GF108

-

GPU Variant

N12M-Q3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

35W

450 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1 (1.0)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.0

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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