FirePro V5900 and Tesla C870 - video card comparison
FirePro V5900
Tesla C870
Architecture
TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Cayman
G80
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
May 2011
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
614.4 gflops
345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
128
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.20
38.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A