AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA Tesla S870

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Antilles G80
GPU variant Antilles XT (215-0807027)
Architecture TeraScale 3 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 2,640 million 681 million
Die size 389 mm² 484 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 8th, 2011 May 2nd, 2007
Generation Northern Islands Tesla
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 699 USD 11,999 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 47 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen
Successor Southern Islands

Clocks

GPU clock 830 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1350 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 76.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1536 128
TMUs 96 32
ROPs 32 24
Compute units 24
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 512 KB 96 KB
SM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 26.56 GPixel/s 14.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 79.68 GTexel/s 38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.550 TFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 637.4 GFLOPS (1:4)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 310 mm 12.2 inches
Width 115 mm 4.5 inches
Height 40 mm 1.6 inches
TDP 375 W 800 W
Suggested PSU 750 W 1200 W
Outputs 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 8-pin
Board number C206-47

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1 (1.0)
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 4.0
CUDA 1.0

Other Features

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