NVIDIA Tesla C870 vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Tesla C870 and 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla C870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (171W vs 204W)

NVIDIA Quadro 6000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.4GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla C870

0.346 TFLOPS

Quadro 6000 +197%

1.028 TFLOPS

Tesla C870

VS

Quadro 6000

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

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

747 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

143.4GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

14

-

Compute Units

-

128

Shading Units

448

32

TMUs

56

24

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

96 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.07 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.14 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

345.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1028 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

513.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G80

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-850-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.681 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

484 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

204W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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