GRID M60-2Q vs Tesla C2050

Place in the ranking	570	433
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.44	4.24
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code name	GF100	GM204
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (14 years ago)	30 August 2015 (10 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 cores	448	2048
Core clock speed	574 MHz	557 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1178 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	238 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	150.8
Floating-point processing power	1.028 TFLOPS	4.825 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	64
TMUs	56	128
L1 Cache	896 KB	768 KB
L2 Cache	768 KB	2 MB

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 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	248 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	750 MHz	1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth	144.0 GB/s	160.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	2.0	5.2

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Tesla C2050 7.18

GRID M60-2Q 11.77
+63.9%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

Tesla C2050 3175
Samples: 12

GRID M60-2Q 5203
+63.9%

Samples: 6

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	7.18	11.77
Recency	25 July 2011	30 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	238 Watt	225 Watt

Tesla C2050 has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GRID M60-2Q, on the other hand, has a 63.9% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 5.8% lower power consumption.

The GRID M60-2Q is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla C2050 in performance tests.