GMA 3600 vs Tesla C2050

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking505not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.41no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)PowerVR SGX545 (2008−2010)
GPU code nameGF100Cedarview
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)1 October 2008 (16 years ago)

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 cores44832
Core clock speed574 MHz400 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)238 Watt13 Watt
Texture fill rate32.141.600
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS0.0256 TFLOPS
ROPs481
TMUs564

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed750 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth144.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors1x DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)10.1
Shader Model5.14.1
OpenGL4.6ES 2.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 1 October 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 238 Watt 13 Watt

Tesla C2050 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GMA 3600, on the other hand, has 1730.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla C2050 and GMA 3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla C2050 is a workstation card while GMA 3600 is a notebook one.


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

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NVIDIA Tesla C2050
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