AMD Radeon R5 A330 vs NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 A330 and NVIDIA Tesla M2050 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon R5 A330

NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 A330

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 79% higher core clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 575 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	21 October 2015 vs 25 July 2011
Core clock speed	1030 MHz vs 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Around 56% higher texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 448 vs 320
Around 56% better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 72% higher memory clock speed: 3092 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Around 83% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36584 vs 20041

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 20.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 659.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	36584 vs 20041

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 A330
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

20041

36584

Name	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA Tesla M2050
Geekbench - OpenCL	20041	36584
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		23.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		966.795
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		44.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		95.318

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 A330	NVIDIA Tesla M2050
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Fermi
Code name	Exo	GF100
Launch date	21 October 2015	25 July 2011
Place in performance rating	1073	1076
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$2,699
Technical info
Core clock speed	1030 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	659.2 gflops	1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	320	448
Texture fill rate	20.6 GTexel / s	32.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	3,100 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		225 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length		248 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	148.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	3092 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5