RTX A5500 vs Tesla C2070

Place in the ranking	512	42
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.35	17.36
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code name	GF100	GA102
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	22 March 2022 (2 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 cores	448	10240
Core clock speed	574 MHz	1080 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1665 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	238 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	532.8
Floating-point processing power	1.028 TFLOPS	34.1 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	96
TMUs	56	320
Tensor Cores	no data	320
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	80

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 4.0 x16
Length	248 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	747 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB/s	768.0 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

1x DVI

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.0	8.6

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla C2070 8.09

RTX A5500 57.76
+614%

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Tesla C2070 3120

RTX A5500 22282
+614%

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	8.09	57.76
Recency	25 July 2011	22 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	24 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	238 Watt	230 Watt

RTX A5500 has a 614% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 400% more advanced lithography process, and 3.5% lower power consumption.

The RTX A5500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla C2070 in performance tests.

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