Tesla S2050 vs Radeon R4 (Beema)
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 1104 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.1 (2014) | Fermi (2010−2014) |
| GPU code name | Beema | GF100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 29 April 2014 (10 years ago) | 25 July 2011 (13 years ago) |
| Launch price (MSRP) | no data | $11,999 |
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 | 128 | 448 |
| Core clock speed | 800 MHz | 574 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 3,100 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 900 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 32.14 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 1.028 gflops |
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 | no data | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
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 | no data | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 3 GB |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 384 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 3092 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 148.4 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
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 data | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (FL 12_0) | 12 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.1 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.1 |
| Vulkan | - | N/A |
| CUDA | - | 2.0 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 29 April 2014 | 25 July 2011 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 40 nm |
R4 (Beema) has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Beema) and Tesla S2050. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Radeon R4 (Beema) is a notebook card while Tesla S2050 is a workstation one.
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