Radeon HD 7970 vs Tesla C2070

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 7970 and Tesla C2070, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 7970 stacks up against Tesla C2070, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Tesla C2070
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 238 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI
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  • Radeon HD 7970 has 26% more power consumption, than Tesla C2070.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is connected by PCIe 3.0 x16, and Tesla C2070 uses PCIe 2.0 x16 interface.
  • Tesla C2070 has 3 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 7970.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is build with GCN architecture, and Tesla C2070 - with Fermi.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is manufactured by 28 nm process technology, and Tesla C2070 - by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 7970 is 26 mm longer, than Tesla C2070.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla C2070 is 1613 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 7970.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 35−40 16−18
ultra / 1080p 21−24 9−10
QHD / 1440p 16−18 3−4
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 60−65 30−35
medium / 1080p 40−45 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 7970 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 111% more, than Tesla C2070.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 7970 Tesla C2070
Architecture GCN Fermi
Code name Tahiti XT GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 22 December 2011 25 July 2011
Pipelines 2048 448
Core clock speed 574 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Transistor count 4,313 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 118.4 32.14
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 274 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 384 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz 2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth 264 GB/s 143.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.1 5.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.0
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
HDMI +
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