Tesla C2090 vs GeForce 505 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGT216GF110
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date17 February 2013 (11 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)

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 cores24512
Core clock speed615 MHz651 MHz
Number of transistors486 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate7.38041.66
Floating-point processing power0.04949 TFLOPS1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs1264

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length168 mm248 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s177.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.15.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.22.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 February 2013 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 250 Watt

505 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and 900% lower power consumption.

Tesla C2090, on the other hand, has a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 505 OEM and Tesla C2090. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 505 OEM is a desktop card while Tesla C2090 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM
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