NVIDIA Tesla M2070 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 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

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
3.5x more pipelines: 448 vs 128
2.5x better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 416.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
Around 91% higher memory clock speed: 3132 MHz vs 1640 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 11 December 2007
Pipelines	448 vs 128
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz vs 1640 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 574 MHz
Around 29% higher texture fill rate: 41.6 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 135 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 574 MHz
Texture fill rate	41.6 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	135 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
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		555
PassMark - G2D Mark		71
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF100	G92
Launch date	25 July 2011	11 December 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$349
Place in performance rating	1342	1345
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	448	128
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	41.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	135 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	754 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	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB / s	52.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz	1640 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3