Tesla T4 vs Tesla M2070

Place in the ranking	634	198
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.10	no data
Power efficiency	1.51	27.73
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GF100	TU104
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	13 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	2560
Core clock speed	574 MHz	585 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1590 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	70 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	254.4
Floating-point processing power	1.03 TFLOPS	8.141 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	64
TMUs	56	160
Tensor Cores	no data	320
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	40

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	168 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	783 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB/s	320.0 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

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	7.5

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	27.85
Recency	25 July 2011	13 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	70 Watt

Tesla T4 has a 470.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 221.4% lower power consumption.

The Tesla T4 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.