Product Compare

NVIDIA Tesla K20s vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Feb 2013 Aug 2012
Generation Tesla Southern Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1300 MHz 1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 5GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 320bit 384bit
Bandwidth 208.0GB/s 264.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2496 2048
TMUs 208 128
ROPs 40 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1280 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 29.90 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 119.6 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.870 TFLOPS 3.789 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 956.8 GFLOPS 947.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK110 New Zealand
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.08 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 561 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 225W 500W
Suggested PSU 550 W 900 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 3x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_0) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.1 1.2
CUDA 3.5
Shader Model 5.1 5.1