Product Compare
NVIDIA Tesla K40s vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Nov 2013 | Jun 2012 |
| Generation | Tesla Kepler | Southern Islands |
| Type | Professional | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 706 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 706 MHz | 1050 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1502 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 12GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 288.4GB/s | 288.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 2880 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 240 | 128 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per SMX) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1536 KB | 768 KB |
| Compute Units | 32 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 42.36 GPixel/s | 33.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 169.4 GTexel/s | 134.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 4.067 TFLOPS | 4.301 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 1355.5 GFLOPS | 1075 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GK110B | Tahiti |
| 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 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti XT2(215-0821065) | |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 245W | 300W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 700 W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2.175 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 3.5 | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 (5.1) | 5.1 |