Quadro FX 580 vs Tesla M2050
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 3GB VRAM Tesla M2050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)
Tesla M2050 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (148.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
416 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Tesla M2050
+1330%
1030
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2011
Quadro FX
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
773 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
148.4GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
14
32
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
48
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.10 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.20 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1030 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
515.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF100
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
