Tesla M2070 vs Quadro K5000

Place in the ranking	435	629
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.61	0.10
Power efficiency	5.88	1.50
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GK104	GF100
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	17 August 2012 (12 years ago)	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$2,499	$3,099

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Quadro K5000 has 510% better value for money than Tesla M2070.

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 cores	1536	448
Core clock speed	706 MHz	574 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	90.37	32.14
Floating-point processing power	2.169 TFLOPS	1.03 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	128	56

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	248 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1350 MHz	783 MHz
Memory bandwidth	172.8 GB/s	150.3 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	+	N/A
CUDA	3.0	2.0

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.35	4.88
Recency	17 August 2012	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	122 Watt	225 Watt

Quadro K5000 has a 112.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 84.4% lower power consumption.

Tesla M2070, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The Quadro K5000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.