NVIDIA Tesla M2050 vs ATI Radeon 9550

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2050 and ATI Radeon 9550 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.

NVIDIA Tesla M2050

ATI Radeon 9550

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 250 MHz
32.2x more texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 64 MB
7.7x more memory clock speed: 3092 MHz vs 400 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2050
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9550

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Radeon 9550
Geekbench - OpenCL	36584
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	23.848
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		35
PassMark - G2D Mark		145

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Radeon 9550
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Rage 8
Code name	GF100	RV350
Launch date	25 July 2011	1 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,699
Place in performance rating	1131	1134
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	250 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	448
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	148.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR