NVIDIA Tesla M2090 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2090 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 M2090

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2090

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 73% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 375 MHz
4.9x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
25.6x more pipelines: 512 vs 20
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 512 MB
3.7x more memory clock speed: 3700 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 18 April 2006
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s vs 7.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 20
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

12.5x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2090
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2090	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
Geekbench - OpenCL	13075
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1127.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	57.33
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	119.136
PassMark - G3D Mark		176
PassMark - G2D Mark		254
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		916
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		916

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2090	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Curie
Code name	GF110	G71
Launch date	25 July 2011	18 April 2006
Place in performance rating	1116	1119
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	375 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,331.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	512	20
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s	7.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	278 million
Boost clock speed		375 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-II
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.6 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	256
Shared memory		0