NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K20c and NVIDIA GeForce G205M 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: 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla K20c

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20c

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 57% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	12 November 2012 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed	706 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

16.1x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 225 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K20c
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K20c	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
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 - G2D Mark		294
PassMark - G3D Mark		92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		989

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K20c	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK110	MCP79MX
Launch date	12 November 2012	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,199
Place in performance rating	1016	1018
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	706 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,524 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2496
Texture fill rate	146.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	5 GB
Memory bandwidth	208.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	5200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5