NVIDIA Tesla M2070 vs ATI Radeon HD 4830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070 and ATI Radeon HD 4830 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla M2070

ATI Radeon HD 4830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 75% higher texture fill rate: 32.2 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
Around 40% better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 736.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
Around 74% higher memory clock speed: 3132 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 21 October 2008
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 736.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4830

Around 43% higher pipelines: 640 vs 448
2.4x lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	575 MHz vs 574 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 448
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4830

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	ATI Radeon HD 4830
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	910.236
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	46.235
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	94.442
PassMark - G3D Mark		844
PassMark - G2D Mark		56
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	ATI Radeon HD 4830
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale
Code name	GF100	RV770
Launch date	25 July 2011	21 October 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$130
Place in performance rating	1336	1339
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	575 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	736.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	640
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	18.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	246 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3