NVIDIA Tesla C2070 For Gaming?

[static84]

Couldn't really find any information on this, but does anyone know if the NVIDIA Tesla C2070 will improve gaming performance? Or is this just for editing?

[MrSuperb]

Couldn't really find any information on this, but does anyone know if the NVIDIA Tesla C2070 will improve gaming performance? Or is this just for editing?

 

neither. it is for HPC

[Tim Drake]

The Tesla series is dedicated to workstation use and although it may be capable of playing games, a consumer GPU would be huge amounts better for the money if simply gaming.

[Guest]

As long as I remember, tesla's don't have an output, and are crazy expensive... Don't take it unless you get it for free and can stream it to an actual monitor

[Firestorm]

Tesla is a compute card so will not affect the graphics performance of your system,

[bob345]

a 970 would be much better for gaming. Hell, for the price of that card you could get two 970's

[static84]

Tesla is a compute card so will not affect the graphics performance of your system,

If its a  compute card, shouldn't it increase performance in everything?

[static84]

a 970 would be much better for gaming. Hell, for the price of that card you could get two 970's

It is not a GPU

[static84]

As long as I remember, tesla's don't have an output, and are crazy expensive... Don't take it unless you get it for free and can stream it to an actual monitor

From my understanding you wont be streaming, it is more of an add on, to make processing faster.

[LapX]

It can't even render a game. It's made for very specific calculations.

[bcredeur97]

its a compute card. its literally made to do math very quickly and that is it lol

[static84]

I'm trying to find out if it there will be any performance increase to gaming or is it just for developers?

[static84]

its a compute card. its literally made to do math very quickly and that is it lol

Yes, I get that it does math really quick, but our computers operate in binary and in order to communicate to other parts inside the computer our computers are constantly doing math problems. So if I get one of these Tesla cards, will normal every day operations including gaming be a lot faster or is it just for developing?

[mikat]

Yes, I get that it does math really quick, but our computers operate in binary, so if I get one of these Tesla cards, Will normal every day operations be a lot faster or is it just for developing?

no you will not benefit from it if you are not doing certain stuff that most people dont use their computers for (simulations of physics and that kind of stuff)

[bcredeur97]

Yes, I get that it does math really quick, but our computers operate in binary, so if I get one of these Tesla cards, Will normal every day operations be a lot faster or is it just for developing?

the computer wont actively use the tesla card, you still need software to control the hardware and that you do not have. It isnt built into windows to use a tesla for x functions. Generally the only thing you can use a tesla for are specialized programs such as bitcoin mining software or password crackers to decode hashes or decode blocks or un-encrypt things much faster and more efficiently than the average GPU can. 

[evinta]

As long as I remember, tesla's don't have an output, and are crazy expensive... Don't take it unless you get it for free and can stream it to an actual monitor

 

It does have one, looks like DVI.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

It does have one, looks like DVI.

Yep one DVI port.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/product_tesla_C2050_C2070_uk.html

[ManWithBeard1990]

Compute cards like the Tesla are really only meant to accelerate applications that use CUDA. You only really need to buy them if that's what you're doing, and you need very dense computing power. A server rack can house many of these right next to each other and where the reference cooler on a consumer GPU uses a blower fan to take air in from in between the cards these things have no fan at all, instead relying on high performance chassis fans to push the through the larger heatsink this creates. It's loud, hot and doesn't make sense in a gaming machine. For that you'll want a general purpose graphics card from their GeForce line.

Quadro's are workstation GPUs and have some extra double precision performance unlocked compared to GeForce and, more importantly, better driver support for professional applications, which is of no use in games (they don't do double precision math and their drivers are in fact less optimised for gaming than the GeForce ones), and easily costs three times as much.

[static84]

Compute cards like the Tesla are really only meant to accelerate applications that use CUDA. You only really need to buy them if that's what you're doing, and you need very dense computing power. A server rack can house many of these right next to each other and where the reference cooler on a consumer GPU uses a blower fan to take air in from in between the cards these things have no fan at all, instead relying on high performance chassis fans to push the through the larger heatsink this creates. It's loud, hot and doesn't make sense in a gaming machine. For that you'll want a general purpose graphics card from their GeForce line.

Quadro's are workstation GPUs and have some extra double precision performance unlocked compared to GeForce and, more importantly, better driver support for professional applications, which is of no use in games (they don't do double precision math and their drivers are in fact less optimised for gaming than the GeForce ones), and easily costs three times as much.

Thank you!