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NVIDIA Tesla C2050

Graphics Processor
GF100
Cores
448
TMUs
56
ROPs
48
Memory Size
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Bus Width
384 bit
GPU Chip
GPU
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The Tesla C2050 was a professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on July 25th, 2011. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the GF100 graphics processor, in its GF100-850-A3 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. The GF100 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 529 mm² and 3,100 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 480 Core 512, which uses the same GPU but has all 512 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the Tesla C2050 to reach the product's target shader count. It features 448 shading units, 56 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 3,072 MB GDDR5 memory with the Tesla C2050, which are connected using a 384-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 574 MHz, memory is running at 750 MHz (3 Gbps effective).
Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA Tesla C2050 draws power from 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 238 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI. Tesla C2050 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 248 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution.

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GF100
GPU Variant
GF100-850-A3
Architecture
Fermi
Foundry
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
Transistors
3,100 million
Density
5.9M / mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Chip Package
BGA-1980

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jul 25th, 2011
Generation
Tesla Fermi
(x20xx)
Predecessor
Tesla
Successor
Tesla Kepler
Production
End-of-life
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Relative Performance

GeForce 210
7%
GeForce 9400 GT
9%
Radeon HD 4550
11%
Radeon HD 5450
14%
Radeon HD 6450
16%
GeForce GT 520
17%
GeForce GT 220
21%
GeForce GT 430
28%
Radeon HD 5570
28%
Radeon HD 4670
30%
GeForce GT 440
32%
GeForce GT 240
33%
GeForce 9600 GT
37%
Radeon HD 5670
40%
GeForce GT 640
43%
GeForce 9800 GT
44%
Radeon HD 6670
46%
Radeon HD 4830
47%
Radeon HD 4770
51%
Radeon HD 4850
53%
GeForce GTS 250
55%
GeForce GTS 450
56%
Radeon HD 5750
58%
Radeon HD 7750
66%
Radeon HD 5770
67%
GeForce GTX 260
68%
Radeon HD 4870
69%
Radeon Vega 8
69%
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
70%
GeForce GTX 650
70%
Radeon HD 5830
74%
Radeon HD 6790
78%
Radeon HD 4890
80%
GeForce GTX 460
83%
Radeon RX Vega 11
83%
GeForce GT 1030
84%
GeForce GTX 275
85%
Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition
85%
GeForce GTX 280
85%
GeForce GTX 465
87%
Radeon HD 6850
91%
GeForce GTX 285
93%
Radeon HD 5850
100%
Tesla C2050
100%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti
101%
Radeon HD 7790
101%
Radeon RX 550
106%
GeForce GTX 470
106%
Radeon HD 6870
110%
Radeon HD 5870
117%
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
121%
Radeon HD 4870 X2
121%
GeForce GTX 750 Ti
124%
Radeon HD 6950
124%
GeForce GTX 295
129%
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
130%
Radeon HD 7850
131%
GeForce GTX 480
133%
Radeon HD 6970
140%
Radeon R7 265
142%
Radeon RX 460
145%
Radeon R7 370
145%
GeForce GTX 660
145%
GeForce GTX 570
146%
Radeon RX 560
148%
GeForce GTX 950
157%
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
158%
Radeon R9 270X
162%
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
164%
GeForce GTX 580
165%
GeForce GTX 1050
166%
Radeon HD 7950
167%
GeForce GTX 1630
170%
Radeon HD 5970
170%
GeForce GTX 760
175%
GeForce GTX 670
188%
GeForce GTX 960
193%
Radeon R9 380
198%
Radeon R9 285
199%
Radeon HD 7970
201%
GeForce GTX 680
203%
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
208%
GeForce GTX 770
213%
Radeon HD 6990
218%
Radeon R9 280X
224%
GeForce GTX 590
227%
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
227%
GeForce GTX 780
251%
Arc A380
252%
Radeon RX 6400
255%
GeForce GTX 1650
260%
Radeon RX 470
277%
Radeon R9 290
280%
Radeon RX 570
296%
Radeon R9 390
299%
Radeon R9 290X
301%
GeForce GTX 970
305%
GeForce GTX TITAN
309%
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
313%
Radeon R9 390X
317%
Radeon HD 7990
319%
Radeon RX 480
320%
GeForce GTX 690
323%
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
332%
Radeon RX 5500 OEM
336%
Radeon RX 580
340%
Radeon RX 5500 XT
343%
Radeon RX 6500 XT
346%
GeForce GTX 980
348%
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
351%
Radeon R9 FURY
352%
Radeon RX 590
368%
Radeon R9 295X2
387%
GeForce GTX 1660
389%
Radeon R9 FURY X
394%
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
400%
GeForce GTX TITAN X
411%
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
423%
GeForce GTX 1070
447%
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
447%
GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB
454%
Radeon RX Vega 56
476%
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
505%
Radeon RX 5600 XT
512%
Radeon RX Vega 64
519%
GeForce GTX 1080
526%
GeForce RTX 2060
526%
Radeon RX 5700
548%
Arc A580
549%
Radeon RX 6600
572%
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
591%
GeForce RTX 2070
599%
Radeon RX 5700 XT
599%
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
611%
Arc A750
631%
Radeon VII
634%
TITAN X Pascal
651%
Radeon RX 6600 XT
657%
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
670%
Arc A770
677%
GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
678%
Radeon RX 6650 XT
713%
Radeon RX 7600
721%
GeForce RTX 4060
724%
GeForce RTX 2080
729%
Radeon RX 7600 XT
744%
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
764%
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
783%
Radeon RX 6700 XT
810%
Radeon RX 6750 XT
860%
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB
869%
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
876%
GeForce RTX 3070
917%
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
981%
Radeon RX 7700 XT
991%
Radeon RX 6800
1011%
GeForce RTX 4070
1120%
Radeon RX 6800 XT
1148%
GeForce RTX 3080
1191%
Radeon RX 7800 XT
1203%
Radeon RX 6900 XT
1237%
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
1299%
Radeon RX 7900 GRE
1324%
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
1335%
Radeon RX 6950 XT
1336%
GeForce RTX 3090
1360%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
1394%
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
1523%
Radeon RX 7900 XT
1564%
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
1577%
GeForce RTX 4080
1771%
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
1797%
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
1814%
GeForce RTX 4090
2225%
Based on TPU review data: "Performance Summary" at 1920x1080, 4K for 2080 Ti and faster.
Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.

Clock Speeds

GPU Clock
574 MHz
Shader Clock
1147 MHz
Memory Clock
750 MHz
3 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size
3 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384 bit
Bandwidth
144.0 GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
448
TMUs
56
ROPs
48
SM Count
14
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
16.07 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
32.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1,028 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
513.9 GFLOPS (1:2)

Board Design

Slot Width
Dual-slot
Length
248 mm
9.8 inches
TDP
238 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
Outputs
1x DVI
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board Number
P1030 SKU 200

Graphics Features

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

GF100 GPU Notes

PureVideo HD: VP4
VDPAU: Feature Set C

GF100 has 4 GPCs each capable of 8 pixels per clock. This limits complete GPU to 32 pixels per clock and because of that it can't feed all 48 ROPs when they all require data at the same time.
Additional ROPs however can be used for MSAA (because it doesn't require additional data from rasterizers, while giving more work to ROPs.)

Latest Drivers:
Windows 2000:
Quadro Release 261.19

Windows XP / Server 2003 x64:
GeForce Release 368.81
Quadro Release R319 U2 (321.01)
Tesla Release 340.62 / R319 U2 (321.01)

Windows Vista:
GeForce Release 365.19
Quadro Release R346 U7 (348.40)
Tesla Release 340.84

Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (x32 / x64):
GeForce Release 391.35
Quadro Release R375 U11 (377.83)
Tesla Release 340.84 / 412.29
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