Tesla A100 vs ATI Radeon HD 5570

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1041not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.20no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRedwoodGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date9 February 2010 (14 years ago)14 May 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores4007936
Core clock speed650 MHz1110 MHz
Number of transistors627 million38,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate13.00550.6
Floating-point processing power0.52 TFLOPS17.62 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs20496

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length165 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount1 GB40 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s1,229 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.2no data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 February 2010 14 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 40 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 39 Watt 260 Watt

ATI HD 5570 has 566.7% lower power consumption.

Tesla A100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5570 and Tesla A100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5570 is a desktop card while Tesla A100 is a workstation one.


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