NVIDIA Tesla M2050 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2050 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla M2050

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
5.4x more texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
5.6x more pipelines: 448 vs 80
8.6x better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 120 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
17.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36584 vs 2112

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 7 January 2010
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 80
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 120 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	36584 vs 2112

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Around 30% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 575 MHz
15x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 3092 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 575 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 3092 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2050
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

36584

2112

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Geekbench - OpenCL	36584	2112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	23.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	966.795
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	44.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	95.318
PassMark - G3D Mark		236
PassMark - G2D Mark		362
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1247
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1247
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1679

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF100	Park
Launch date	25 July 2011	7 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,699
Place in performance rating	1076	1077
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	448	80
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	292 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	148.4 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz	3200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2, GDDR2, DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0