NVIDIA Tesla K10 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K10 and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 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: 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Tesla K10

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K10

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 49% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 500 MHz
73.8x more texture fill rate: 2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
192x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 16
114.5x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,289 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 512 MB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	1 May 2012 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	745 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 16
Floating-point performance	2x 2,289 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

11.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 225 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K10
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K10	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Geekbench - OpenCL	14029
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	40.736
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	975.508
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.39
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3632
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3632
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
PassMark - G3D Mark		122
PassMark - G2D Mark		172

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K10	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK104	G96
Launch date	1 May 2012	3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,099
Place in performance rating	981	983
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2x 2,289 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	2x 1536	16
Texture fill rate	2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	272 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2x 4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	2x 160.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	2x 256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0