Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Tesla M2050

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated198
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.94
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGF100AD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,699 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 cores4482048
Core clock speed575 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate32.20129.6
Floating-point processing power1.03 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs5664
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed773 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth148.4 GB/s128.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 542.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M2050 and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla M2050 is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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