Quadro 400 vs Tesla C2050
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 and 3GB VRAM Tesla C2050 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro 400 Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 238W)
Tesla C2050 Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)
400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro 400
108
Tesla C2050
+851%
1028
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jul 2011
Quadro
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
770 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
12.32GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
6
SM Count
14
48
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
8
ROPs
48
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.07 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.14 GTexel/s
108.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1028 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
513.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
238W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x DisplayPort
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
GF100
GT216 GL
GPU Variant
GF100-850-A3
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
