Tesla C870 vs Quadro 4000M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking733not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.37no data
Power efficiency2.36no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGF104G80
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date22 February 2011 (13 years ago)2 May 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 $1,499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores336128
Core clock speed475 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistors1,950 million681 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt171 Watt
Texture fill rate26.6038.40
Floating-point processing power0.6384 TFLOPS0.3456 TFLOPS
ROPs3224
TMUs5632

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB1536 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed625 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth80 GB/s76.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.14.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 February 2011 2 May 2007
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1536 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 171 Watt

Quadro 4000M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 125% more advanced lithography process, and 71% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 4000M and Tesla C870. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro 4000M is a mobile workstation card while Tesla C870 is a workstation one.


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