
Quadro CX and Tesla C870 - video card comparison
Quadro CX
Tesla C870
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GT200B
G80
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
November 2008
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
602 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
462.3 gflops
345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
128
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
171 Watt
Texture fill rate
38.53
38.40
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.3
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A