Radeon 550 vs Tesla M2070

Place in the ranking	636	609
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.11	4.37
Power efficiency	1.49	7.48
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GF100	Lexa
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	20 April 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$79

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Radeon 550 has 3873% better value for money than Tesla M2070.

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	512
Core clock speed	574 MHz	1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1183 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	37.86
Floating-point processing power	1.03 TFLOPS	1.211 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	16
TMUs	56	32

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 x8
Length	248 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	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	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	783 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB/s	56 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 DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.0	-

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	4.89	5.46
Recency	25 July 2011	20 April 2017
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	50 Watt

Tesla M2070 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Radeon 550, on the other hand, has a 11.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 350% lower power consumption.

The Radeon 550 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla M2070 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 550 is a desktop one.

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