NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K20c and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20c

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 36.7x more texture fill rate: 146.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
  • 20.8x more pipelines: 2496 vs 120
  • 29.4x better floating-point performance: 3,524 gflops vs 120 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 20x more maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 256 MB
  • 6.5x more memory clock speed: 5200 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 12 November 2012 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 706 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 146.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2496 vs 120
Floating-point performance 3,524 gflops vs 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 5 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5200 MHz vs 800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K20c
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Name NVIDIA Tesla K20c ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600
Geekbench - OpenCL 15597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.423
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1427.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 179.044
PassMark - G3D Mark 168
PassMark - G2D Mark 267
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1690

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K20c ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK110 M76
Launch date 12 November 2012 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $3,199
Place in performance rating 1016 1018
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 706 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,524 gflops 120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 2496 120
Texture fill rate 146.8 GTexel / s 4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 390 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Length 267 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 5 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 208.0 GB / s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 5200 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PowerPlay 7.0