NVIDIA Tesla C2070 vs ATI Radeon X600 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla C2070 and ATI Radeon X600 SE 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 - 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 NVIDIA Tesla C2070

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 77% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 24.8x more texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 3000 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 63.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3121 vs 49
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 462 vs 229
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 25 July 2011 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed 575 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 32.2 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3121 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 vs 229

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 SE

  • 6.6x lower typical power consumption: 36 Watt vs 238 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 36 Watt vs 238 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla C2070
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3121
49
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
462
229
Name NVIDIA Tesla C2070 ATI Radeon X600 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark 3121 49
PassMark - G2D Mark 462 229
Geekbench - OpenCL 9716
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 26.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 908.754
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.015
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 43.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 93.344
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3245
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3245
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3710
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla C2070 ATI Radeon X600 SE

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 9
Code name GF100 RV370
Launch date 25 July 2011 1 September 2004
Place in performance rating 757 759
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 575 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 448
Texture fill rate 32.2 GTexel / s 1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 238 Watt 36 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 248 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 144.0 GB / s 4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 3000 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR