NVIDIA Tesla K40m vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K40m and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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.

NVIDIA Tesla K40m

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K40m

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 3% higher core clock speed: 667 MHz vs 650 MHz
17.2x more texture fill rate: 178.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 512 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
21.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3281 vs 151

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	22 November 2013 vs 10 September 2006
Core clock speed	667 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	178.8 GTexel / s vs 10.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3281 vs 151

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

4.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 466 vs 111

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	466 vs 111

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K40m
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

466

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3281

151

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K40m	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Geekbench - OpenCL	18672
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	68.519
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1884.11
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.358
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	117.253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	310.472
PassMark - G2D Mark	111	466
PassMark - G3D Mark	3281	151

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K40m	ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R500
Code name	GK110B	R580+
Launch date	22 November 2013	10 September 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$7,699
Place in performance rating	637	328
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	745 MHz
Core clock speed	667 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,291 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2880
Texture fill rate	178.8 GTexel / s	10.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	245 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR4