Tesla X2070 vs Quadro FX 1000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1462not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameNV30GF110
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 January 2003 (21 year ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)

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 coresno data512
Core clock speed300 MHz651 MHz
Number of transistors125 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data225 Watt
Texture fill rate2.40041.66
Floating-point processing powerno data1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs864

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s177.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-2.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2003 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm

Tesla X2070 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 1000 and Tesla X2070. We've got no test results to judge.


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