Tesla M2050 vs FirePro D700

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking371not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.56no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameTahitiGF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date18 January 2014 (10 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,699

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 cores2048448
Core clock speed850 MHz575 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)274 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate108.832.20
Floating-point processing power3.482 TFLOPS1.03 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs12856

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 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length279 mm248 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount6 GB3 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1370 MHz773 MHz
Memory bandwidth263.0 GB/s148.4 GB/s

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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDINo 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 18 January 2014 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 274 Watt 225 Watt

FirePro D700 has an age advantage of 2 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla M2050, on the other hand, has 21.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro D700 and Tesla M2050. We've got no test results to judge.


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