Arc A550M vs Tesla S2050

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated225
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.01
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameGF100DG2-512
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$11,999 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 cores4482048
Core clock speed574 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)900 Watt60 Watt
Texture fill rate32.14262.4
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS8.397 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs56128
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 4.0 x16
Width2-slotno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed773 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth148.4 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 900 Watt 60 Watt

Arc A550M has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 566.7% more advanced lithography process, and 1400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla S2050 and Arc A550M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla S2050 is a workstation card while Arc A550M is a notebook one.


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