NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q vs ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q and ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP 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: 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 M2070-Q

ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 15% higher core clock speed: 574 MHz vs 498 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
9.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1306 vs 141

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 1 March 2010
Core clock speed	574 MHz vs 498 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	444 vs 442
PassMark - G3D Mark	1306 vs 141

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

444

442

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1306

141

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q	ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	24.784
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	917.512
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.125
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	44.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	93.533
PassMark - G2D Mark	444	442
PassMark - G3D Mark	1306	141
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		568
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		568

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070-Q	ATI Radeon HD 4290 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF100	RS880
Launch date	25 July 2011	1 March 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,489
Place in performance rating	779	781
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	498 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448
Texture fill rate	32.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	181 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	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	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5