Tesla X2070 vs Quadro FX 5800

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking746not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.04no data
Power efficiency1.16no data
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code nameGT200BGF110
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date11 November 2008 (16 years ago)25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,499 no data

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 cores240512
Core clock speed610 MHz651 MHz
Number of transistors1,400 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)189 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate48.8041.66
Floating-point processing power0.6221 TFLOPS1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs8064

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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotMXM Module
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz924 MHz
Memory bandwidth102.4 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 DisplayPort, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.1
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.32.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 November 2008 25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 189 Watt 225 Watt

FX 5800 has 19% lower power consumption.

Tesla X2070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 37.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 5800 and Tesla X2070. We've got no test results to judge.


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