Tesla S870

Key Metrics

Launch Date
2007-05-02
CUDA Cores
128
Memory
1.5 GB GDDR3
Memory Bandwidth
76.8 GB/s
TDP/TBP
800 W
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
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Why It Mattered

Tesla S870 is a Tesla accelerator from the Tesla generation. Its historical context is data-center deployment rather than gaming, so form factor, memory capacity, interconnect, virtualization features, and server compatibility are the details that make this entry useful.

Used-Market Caution

Before buying used, confirm PCIe versus SXM or OAM form factor, passive airflow needs, auxiliary power, HBM size, firmware locks, ECC or retired-page errors, seller proof from nvidia-smi under load, and whether any vGPU or enterprise licensing is required.

Sources

Primary / manufacturer sources

  1. NVIDIA Tesla S870 GPU computing system specificationOfficial four-GPU system configuration with 6 GB total memory, 1.5 GB and 384-bit per GPUOpen source
  2. NVIDIA Tesla GPU computing solutions product overviewOfficial S870 product overview identifying four GPUs and 6 GB total, 1.5 GB dedicated per GPUOpen source

Independent reference sources

  1. TechPowerUp GPU SpecsModel-level specification reference for this GPU entryOpen source

Reference databases

  1. RightNow GPU DatabaseOpen GPU database used to cross-check specifications A reference database: good for cross-checking specifications, but not proof of the original release details on its own.Open source