Nvidia Tesla vs GTX cards?

[DamoTourettes]

Hi all,

I work for a financial services company, and I've got a developer that's wanting to use MATLAB for some parallelized computing. I'm looking at the Tesla 448 CUDA core architecture (Tesla C2050 3GB card) versus the GTX 580 3GB and I can't seem to see a great deal of difference (apart from about £1500 in price) - can anyone point out why I'd use a Tesla over a GTX 580 in this instance?

Cheers

 

[PwnDirect]

Different firmware, high quaility components & better aftercare.

If its possible just get a 580 & flash the firmware, used to be able to do with 8800

 

[DamoTourettes]

Hi there - this question has kinda raised it's head again. Can someone help me with some fors/againsts as to why I'd use a Tesla over a GTX card (excepting the GTX 680 of course) - is it just that there's more RAM and better/longer support on the Teslas? My inclination is to go with quad GTX580's rather than Teslas in a few machines I'm building at the moment unless I'm totally missing something? Cost seems to be an issue - they're about £1500 apart in price...

 

[cmndr_andi]

Hi there,

Here is some more information on tesla vs Geforce graphics cards.

As you can see the main differences are the higher double precision performance, much more VRAM, firmware/drivers made specifically for these tasks and better service.

 

[andybird123]

Support - with the teslas you get access to all sorts of GPGPU advice/help/sourcecode/tools that you just don't get if you guy a 580

 

[James J]

Also get real 10bit support on tesla which is important in the medical industry.

 

[no_1_dave]

If you're doing this professionally you should be doing it right, not trying to cut corners.
Tesla offers a great deal more then G-Force, just check the above link cmndr andi posted.