Tesla S2050 vs Quadro 5000

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking626not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.13no data
Power efficiency2.29no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGF100GF100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date23 February 2011 (13 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,499 $11,999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores352448
Core clock speed513 MHz574 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)152 Watt900 Watt
Texture fill rate22.5732.14
Floating-point processing power0.7223 TFLOPS1.028 TFLOPS
ROPs4048
TMUs4456

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length248 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2.5 GB3 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz773 MHz
Memory bandwidth120.0 GB/s148.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 2x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.02.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 February 2011 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 2.5 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 152 Watt 900 Watt

Quadro 5000 has 492.1% lower power consumption.

Tesla S2050, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 months, and a 20% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro 5000 and Tesla S2050. We've got no test results to judge.


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