NVIDIA started Tesla C2050 sales 25 July 2011. This is a Fermi architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 144.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 248 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 238 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Tesla C2050: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	471
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	3.21
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF100
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (12 years ago)
Current price	$70	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Tesla C2050's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla C2050's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	574 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors	3,100 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	238 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	32.14	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla C2050 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla C2050: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	384 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	3000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla C2050. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

1x DVI

API support

APIs supported by Tesla C2050, sometimes including their particular versions.

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

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla C2050. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla C2050 8.20

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla C2050 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.