Tesla M2070 vs Quadro K2200M

Place in the ranking	486	636
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.11
Power efficiency	9.46	1.49
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GM107	GF100
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	19 July 2014 (10 years ago)	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$3,099

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores	640	448
Core clock speed	667 MHz	574 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	26.68	32.14
Floating-point processing power	0.8538 TFLOPS	1.03 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	48
TMUs	40	56

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).

Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	no data	248 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	783 MHz
Memory bandwidth	80 GB/s	150.3 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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Display Port	1.2	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Display Management	+	no data
Optimus	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	5.0	2.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	8.97	4.89
Recency	19 July 2014	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	65 Watt	225 Watt

K2200M has a 83.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 246.2% lower power consumption.

Tesla M2070, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Quadro K2200M is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Be aware that Quadro K2200M is a mobile workstation card while Tesla M2070 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.