NVIDIA Tesla M2070 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2070 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla M2070

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2070

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.3x more pipelines: 448 vs 192
2.2x better floating-point performance: 1,030.4 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 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 30 March 2009
Pipelines	448 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	3132 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 574 MHz
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 38.4 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 108 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 574 MHz
Texture fill rate	38.4 GTexel / s vs 32.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2070
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
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		824
PassMark - G2D Mark		52
Geekbench - OpenCL		13337
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3258
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3258

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2070	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GF100	GT200B
Launch date	25 July 2011	30 March 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$799
Place in performance rating	1359	1362
Type	Workstation	Workstation
Price now		$109.99
Value for money (0-100)		9.89
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,030.4 gflops	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	448	192
Texture fill rate	32.2 GTexel / s	38.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	108 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	198 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	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