NVIDIA Tesla M2050 vs ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2050 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP 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 HD 4650 AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2050

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 448 vs 320
2.7x better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
3.9x more memory clock speed: 3092 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 10 September 2008
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 575 MHz
4.7x lower typical power consumption: 48 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 575 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2050
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Geekbench - OpenCL	36584
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		208
PassMark - G2D Mark		156

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2050	ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF100	RV730
Launch date	25 July 2011	10 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,699
Place in performance rating	1076	1078
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	575 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	320
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	514 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	148.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2