Tesla S870 vs GeForce 720A

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1048	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.22	no data
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GF117	G80
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	1 July 2014 (11 years ago)	2 May 2007 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$11,999

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	96	128 ×4
Core clock speed	775 MHz	600 MHz
Boost clock speed	938 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	585 million	681 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	800 Watt
Texture fill rate	15.01	38.40 ×4
Floating-point processing power	0.1801 TFLOPS	0.3456 TFLOPS ×4
ROPs	8	24 ×4
TMUs	16	32 ×4
L1 Cache	128 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	96 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	no data	2-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB ×4
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit ×4
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory bandwidth	16 GB/s	76.8 GB/s ×4

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.1	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.1	+

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 July 2014	2 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	800 Watt