Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA Tesla K40m

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Oct 2010 Nov 2013
Generation Northern Islands Tesla
Type Desktop Professional
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1050 MHz 1502 MHz
Base Clock 745 MHz
Boost Clock 876 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 12GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 134.4GB/s 288.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 14
Shading Units 1120 2880
TMUs 56 240
ROPs 32 48
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache 512 KB 1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 28.80 GPixel/s 52.56 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 50.40 GTexel/s 210.2 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.016 TFLOPS 5.046 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1.682 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Barts GK110B
GPU Variant Barts XT(215-0798000)
Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1.7 billion 7.08 billion
Die Size 255 mm² 561 mm²
Board Design
TDP 151W 245W
Suggested PSU 450 W 550 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.1
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 3.5