ATI Radeon 9700 vs Tesla X2090

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1427
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.26
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameGF110R300
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date25 July 2011 (13 years ago)1 July 2002 (22 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 cores512no data
Core clock speed651 MHz275 MHz
Number of transistors3,000 million110 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt37 Watt
Texture fill rate41.662.200
Floating-point processing power1.332 TFLOPSno data
ROPs488
TMUs648

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 x16AGP 8x
WidthMXM Module1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataFloppy

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount6 GB128 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed924 MHz270 MHz
Memory bandwidth177.4 GB/s17.28 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 July 2011 1 July 2002
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 37 Watt

Tesla X2090 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9700, on the other hand, has 508.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla X2090 and Radeon 9700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla X2090 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 9700 is a desktop one.


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