Tesla M2070 vs Radeon Pro W5500M

Place in the ranking	484	636
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.11
Power efficiency	7.26	1.49
Architecture	RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Navi 14	GF100
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 February 2020 (4 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.

no data

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	1408	448
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	574 MHz
Boost clock speed	1450 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	6,400 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	127.6	32.14
Floating-point processing power	4.083 TFLOPS	1.03 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	88	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 4.0 x8	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	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	783 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
CUDA	-	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	9.00	4.89
Recency	10 February 2020	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	7 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	85 Watt	225 Watt

Pro W5500M has a 84% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 8 years, a 471.4% more advanced lithography process, and 164.7% lower power consumption.

Tesla M2070, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Radeon Pro W5500M is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W5500M 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.