Nvidia Tesla C870 Specification
Board Specification
NVIDIA Tesla C870
GPU Computing
Processor Board
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Document Change History
Version Date Reason for Change
01 July 24, 2007 Preliminary Release
02 August 1, 2007 Clarified language support for Linux (Table 9)
03 January 29, 2008 Removed confidential statement
04 April 14, 2008 Updated terminology to be the same as used on
Updated look and feel to meet current standards
web site and other documents
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Table of Contents
NVIDIA Tesla C870 Overview.........................................................................................1
Key Features....................................................................................................................1
GPU Description ...............................................................................................................2
Configuration...................................................................................................................3
Mechanical Specification................................................................................................4
PCI Express System..........................................................................................................4
Placement of Standard I/O Connectors...............................................................................5
Internal Connector and Headers..................................................................................... 6
PCI Express Power Connector........................................................................................6
4-Pin Fan Connector...................................................................................................... 7
Power Specifications......................................................................................................8
Power by Rail...................................................................................................................9
Thermal Specifications.................................................................................................10
Thermal Qualification Summary....................................................................................... 10
Cooling Solution ............................................................................................................. 12
Support Information ....................................................................................................14
Languages..................................................................................................................... 14
Certificates and Agencies ................................................................................................ 15
Certifications .............................................................................................................. 15
Agencies.................................................................................................................... 15
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List of Figures
Figure 1. Tesla C870 GPU................................................................................................. 2
Figure 2. PCI Express Board..............................................................................................4
Figure 3. Blank Bracket .................................................................................................... 5
Figure 4. 6-Pin PCI Express Power Connector..................................................................... 6
Figure 5. 4-Pin Fan Connector...........................................................................................7
Figure 6. TM60 Active Fan Sink....................................................................................... 12
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List of Tables
Table 1. Board Configuration ........................................................................................... 3
Table 2. 6-Pin PCI Express Power Connector Pinout........................................................... 7
Table 3. Configuration with Two 6-Pin Connectors............................................................. 8
Table 4. Power By Rail .................................................................................................... 9
Table 5. Test Setup and Configuration............................................................................ 10
Table 6. Sample Thermal Results and Specification.......................................................... 11
Table 7. Fan Specifications and Conditions...................................................................... 13
Table 8. Environmental Specifications and Conditions....................................................... 13
Table 9. Languages Supported....................................................................................... 14
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NVIDIA Tesla C870
Overview
The NVIDIA® Tesla™ C870 GPU computing processor board is a PCI Express
(Gen 1) full-height (4.376 inches by 12.283 inches) form factor computing add-in
card based on the NVIDIA Tesla C870 graphics processing unit (GPU), and is
targeted as a high performance computing (HPC) solution for PCI Express systems.
The Tesla C870 board offers 1536 MB of 136-pin ball grid array (BGA) GDDR3
memory.
Key Features
GPU
Number of streaming processor cores: 128
Processor core clock: 1.35 GHz
Voltage: 1.3 V ± 130 mV
Package size: 42.5 mm × 42.5 mm 1449-pin flip-chip ball grid array (FCBGA)
Board
Twelve layers printed circuit board (PCB)
PCI Express ×16 Generation 1 system interface
Physical dimensions: 4.376 inches × 12.283 inches, dual slot
Power: 170.9 W
External Connectors
None
Internal Connectors and Headers
Two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors
4-pin fan connector
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NVIDIA Tesla C870 GPU Computing Processor Board
Memory
Memory size: 1536 MB
¾ Twenty-four pieces 16M × 32 GDDR3 136-pin BGA SDRAM
Memory clock: 800 MHz
Interface: 384-bit GDDR3
BIOS
Serial ROM, 128 K × 8
GPU Description
The Tesla C870 is based on the G80 Tesla GPU from NVIDIA.
Memory
Memory
Controller
Tesla C870
Compute
GPU
Host Interface
PCI-E
Figure 1. Tesla C870 GPU
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