RTX 6000 Ada 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 rated15
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.71
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGF100AD102
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)3 December 2022 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$11,999 $7,349

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 cores44818176
Core clock speed574 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data2505 MHz
Number of transistors3,100 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)900 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate32.141,423
Floating-point processing power1.028 TFLOPS91.06 TFLOPS
ROPs48192
TMUs56568

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
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB48 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed773 MHz16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth148.4 GB/s768.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA2.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 3 December 2022
Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 900 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 6000 Ada has an age advantage of 11 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 900% more advanced lithography process, and 200% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla S2050 and RTX 6000 Ada. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla S2050 is a workstation graphics card while RTX 6000 Ada is a desktop one.


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