GK107 vs Tesla C2070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking533not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGF100GK107
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)no data

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 cores448384
Core clock speed574 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,100 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)238 Wattno data
Texture fill rate32.14no data
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPSno data
ROPs4816
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount6 GBno data
Memory bus width384 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2988 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth143.4 GB/sno data

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 DVIno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

NVENCno data1st Gen
PureVideo HDno dataVP5

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.16.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.2.175
CUDA2.03.0

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm

GK107 has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla C2070 and GK107. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla C2070 is a workstation graphics card while GK107 is a desktop one.


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