Quadro FX 3000G vs Tesla X2070

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	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name	GF110	NV35
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	22 July 2003 (21 year 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	512	no data
Core clock speed	651 MHz	400 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	135 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	41.66	3.200
Floating-point processing power	1.332 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	48	4
TMUs	64	8

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	AGP 8x
Width	MXM Module	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x Molex

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	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	924 MHz	425 MHz
Memory bandwidth	177.4 GB/s	27.2 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

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	9.0a
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 July 2011	22 July 2003
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	130 nm

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