NVIDIA Tesla C2050 vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla C2050 and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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: 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla C2050

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 3.1x more texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • 21x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3176 vs 151
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 July 2011 vs 10 September 2006
Texture fill rate 32.2 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3176 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 362
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 575 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 466 vs 362

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla C2050
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3176
151
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
362
466
Name NVIDIA Tesla C2050 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 3176 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 362 466
Geekbench - OpenCL 11024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.055
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 901.157
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.99
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 41.654
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 89.869
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 9064
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 5962
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 9064

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla C2050 ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture Fermi R500
Code name GF100 R580+
Launch date 25 July 2011 10 September 2006
Place in performance rating 581 328
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 575 MHz 650 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 448
Texture fill rate 32.2 GTexel / s 10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 238 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 248 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4