Tesla M2050 and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

Tesla M2050

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

GF100

NV10 A3

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

July 2011

October 1999

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Core clock speed

575 MHz

120 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,030.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

3,100 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

448

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.20

0.48

Memory type

GDDR5

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

32 MB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

3092 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

148.4 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x VGA

DirectX

12 (11_0)

7.0

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A