Radeon HD 7290 vs Tesla M2070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking632not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.10no data
Power efficiency1.50no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameGF100Loveland
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)6 June 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,099 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores44880
Core clock speed574 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million450 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate32.143.200
Floating-point processing power1.03 TFLOPS0.064 TFLOPS
ROPs484
TMUs568

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 x16IGP
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
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 amount6 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed783 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth150.3 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 6 June 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 18 Watt

HD 7290 has an age advantage of 10 months, and 1150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M2070 and Radeon HD 7290. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla M2070 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 7290 is a desktop one.


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