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NVIDIA Tesla C2070 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM Tesla C2070 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla C2070 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.4GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)
440 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 238W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Tesla C2070 +4572%
1.028 TFLOPS
Quadro NVS 420
0.022 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jul 2011
Release Date
Jan 2009
Tesla
Generation
Quadro NVS
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

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-
-
-
-
-
747 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz

Memory

6GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
143.4GB/s
Bandwidth
11.20GB/s

Render Config

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-
-
14
SM Count
1
448
Shading Units
8
56
TMUs
4
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

16.07 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.200 GPixel/s
32.14 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.200 GTexel/s
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-
-
1028 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
22.40 GFLOPS
513.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

238W
TDP
40W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x VHDCI
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GF100
GPU Name
G98
-
-
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
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