Tesla C870 and Radeon RX 540X - video card comparison

Tesla C870

Radeon RX 540X

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)

GPU code name

G80

Polaris 12

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

May 2007

March 2018

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

-

1219 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

345.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

681 million

2,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

512

Power consumption (TDP)

171 Watt

50 Watt

Texture fill rate

38.40

35.97

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1536 MB

4 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

1600 MHz

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

112.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131

FreeSync

-

+