Quadro2 MXR vs Tesla D870

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name	G80	NV11 B2
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	2 May 2007 (17 years ago)	25 July 2000 (24 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$7,499	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	128	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	200 MHz
Number of transistors	681 million	20 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	520 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	38.40	0.8
Floating-point processing power	0.3456 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	24	4
TMUs	32	4

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 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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	GDDR3	SDR
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	32 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	183 MHz
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB/s	2.928 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

1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	7.0
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	1.2
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	2 May 2007	25 July 2000
Maximum RAM amount	1536 MB	32 MB
Chip lithography	90 nm	180 nm

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