AMD Radeon R9 M290X vs NVIDIA Tesla C2050

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M290X and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M290X

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• Around 48% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 575 MHz
• 2.2x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
• 2.9x more pipelines: 1280 vs 448
• 2.2x better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 1,030.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 238 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3282 vs 3176
• Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 426 vs 362
• 2.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 23558 vs 11024
• Around 96% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 51.022 vs 26.055
• Around 4% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 936.497 vs 901.157
• Around 88% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 5.62 vs 2.99
• Around 86% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 77.584 vs 41.654
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 267.307 vs 89.869

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C2050

• 2.5x more memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 5962 vs 2581
• 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 9064 vs 2526
• 2.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 5962 vs 2581
• 3.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 9064 vs 2526

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M290X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla C2050

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3282 3176
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	426 362
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	23558 11024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	51.022 26.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	936.497 901.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	5.62 2.99
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	77.584 41.654
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	267.307 89.869
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 9064
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2526 9064

Compare specifications (specs)