Tesla M2070 vs Quadro M5000

Place in the ranking	224	629
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.04	0.10
Power efficiency	11.30	1.51
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GM204	GF100
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	29 June 2015 (9 years ago)	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,856.99	$3,099

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro M5000 has 2940% better value for money than Tesla M2070.

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	2048	448
Core clock speed	861 MHz	574 MHz
Boost clock speed	1038 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,200 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	132.9	32.14
Floating-point processing power	4.252 TFLOPS	1.03 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	48
TMUs	128	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	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	248 mm
Width	2" (5.1 cm)	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1 x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options	+	-

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	256 Bit	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1653 MHz	783 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 211 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	1x DVI, 4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data
Multi-display synchronization	Quadro Sync	no data

Supported technologies

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

ECC (Error Correcting Code)	+	no data
3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
High-Performance Video I/O6	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.2	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	24.38	4.88
Recency	29 June 2015	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	150 Watt	225 Watt

Quadro M5000 has a 399.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

The Quadro M5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

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