Radeon Pro 580X vs Tesla M2070

Place in the ranking	629	282
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.10	no data
Power efficiency	1.50	9.02
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name	GF100	Polaris 20
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	18 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	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 cores	448	2304
Core clock speed	574 MHz	1100 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	5,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	172.8
Floating-point processing power	1.03 TFLOPS	5.53 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	32
TMUs	56	144

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 3.0 x16
Length	248 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

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	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	783 MHz	1695 MHz
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB/s	217.0 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

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	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	4.88	19.54
Recency	25 July 2011	18 March 2019
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	150 Watt

Pro 580X has a 300.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 50% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Pro 580X is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla M2070 is a workstation card while Radeon Pro 580X is a mobile workstation one.

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