NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K20c 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Tesla K20c

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20c

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 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
156x more pipelines: 2496 vs 16
88.1x better floating-point performance: 3,524 gflops vs 40 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
10x more maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 512 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 5200 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	12 November 2012 vs 3 June 2008
Core clock speed	706 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	146.8 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2496 vs 16
Floating-point performance	3,524 gflops vs 40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	5 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	5200 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 K20c
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K20c	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
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		122
PassMark - G2D Mark		172

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K20c	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK110	G96
Launch date	12 November 2012	3 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,199
Place in performance rating	980	983
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,524 gflops	40 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	2496	16
Texture fill rate	146.8 GTexel / s	4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	314 million
CUDA cores		16
Gigaflops		60
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	208.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5200 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
PCI-E 2.0