NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 vs NVIDIA Tesla M2050
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 380 and 3GB VRAM Tesla M2050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 's Advantages
Lower TDP (34W vs 225W)
NVIDIA Tesla M2050 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (148.4GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 380
0.035 TFLOPS
Tesla M2050
+2842%
1.03 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Jul 2011
Quadro FX
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
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700 MHz
Memory Clock
773 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
148.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
14
16
Shading Units
448
8
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
48
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.10 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1030 GFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
515.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
34W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96
GPU Name
GF100
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
144 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
