NVIDIA Tesla M2070 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 Quadro FX 3700M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 4% higher core clock speed: 574 MHz vs 550 MHz
3.5x more pipelines: 448 vs 128
2.9x better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
Around 96% higher memory clock speed: 3132 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 14 August 2008
Core clock speed	574 MHz vs 550 MHz
Pipelines	448 vs 128
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M

Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 35.2 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 225 Watt

Texture fill rate	35.2 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M
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		452
PassMark - G2D Mark		81
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3315
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3315

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla
Code name	GF100	G92
Launch date	25 July 2011	14 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$925
Place in performance rating	1327	1328
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Price now		$925
Value for money (0-100)		1.12
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	352.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	448	128
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	35.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-HE
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB / s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
CUDA
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