Tesla C2090 vs Radeon HD 8570M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1069not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameSunGF110
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 March 2013 (11 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 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 cores320512
Core clock speed750 MHz651 MHz
Boost clock speed825 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rate16.5041.66
Floating-point processing power0.528 TFLOPS1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs2064

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 3.0 x8PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data248 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s177.4 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_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.1
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2013 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm

HD 8570M has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla C2090, on the other hand, has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8570M and Tesla C2090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8570M is a notebook card while Tesla C2090 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8570M
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