AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM vs NVIDIA Tesla S870

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Bonaire G80
GPU variant Bonaire XT (215-0839039) —
Architecture GCN 2.0 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 2,080 million 681 million
Die size 160 mm² 484 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 21st, 2013 May 2nd, 2007
Generation Volcanic Islands Tesla
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Predecessor Sea Islands —
Successor Pirate Islands —
Launch price — 11,999 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 1100 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 1625 MHz 6.5 Gbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock — 1350 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 bit
Bandwidth 104.0 GB/s 76.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 896 128
TMUs 56 32
ROPs 16 24
Compute units 14 —
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) —
Cache L2 256 KB 96 KB
SM count — 16

Performance

Pixel rate 17.60 GPixel/s 14.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 61.60 GTexel/s 38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1.971 TFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 123.2 GFLOPS (1:16) —

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 183 mm 7.2 inches —
TDP 85 W 800 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 1200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin —

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
OpenCL 2.0 1.1 (1.0)
Vulkan 1.2 —
Shader model 6.3 4.0
CUDA — 1.0

Other Features

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