The difference between Tesla, Quadro and GeForce and which one is best for what exactly

[JoeBecky]

I want to know the difference between between Nvidia Tesla, Quadro and GeForce. And their exact uses, what each one is best at and why?. Also, what are competitive cards from AMD that compete with Tesla and the Quadro?
What are GFLOPS?

Thanks for your time!

 

[kanewolf]

AMD does not have any direct competitor to the Tesla cards. The FirePro line of video cards compete with the Quadro line.

Tesla cards are compute ONLY. They don't have any video output ports
Quadro are graphics cards and drivers optimized for workstation applications like CAD and 3D modeling.
GeForce are mainstream and gaming oriented cards. The drivers have optimizations for specific games.

GFLOPS are Giga-FLOPs (Floating Point Operations).

 

[davidarad02]

OK,
GeForce are the main-stream cards from nvidia (the competitor is radeon from AMD). they are ment for (mainly) gaming, and the newest lineup is the 900 series, featuring the maxwell architecture. as well as the 900 series, there is the titan series, meant for the most enthusiast gamers. the newest model is the GTX TITAN X.
Quadro (firepro for AMD) is made for workstations and it has a few benefits over geforce. it has ECC RAM support, and the GPU's are cherry picked for the best performance. they usually have more RAM then GeForce equivalents (because they actually use the same chips as in the geforce cards), and they feature double-percision floating points capabilities, which is a more fancy way of rendering a 3d model. quadros usually also have more video ports on the back, and more mutli-display capability.

you can watch a techquickie video about geforce vs quadro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Npt1BSF04

tesla is just an acceleration card (literally, it has no video ports out the back), and the point of it is to cram as much CUDA cores into a card, that will accelerate anything you want, as long as it supports CUDA acceleration.
BTW, all nvidia cards (since the 8800GT) are using cuda, so they will accelerate using it.

 

[ahnilated]

This sounds like someone doing research for school and wanting the answer handed to them.

 

[Pinhedd]

I want to know the difference between between Nvidia Tesla, Quadro and GeForce. And their exact uses, what each one is best at and why?. Also, what are competitive cards from AMD that compete with Tesla and the Quadro?
What are GFLOPS?

Thanks for your time!

NVidia's Tesla products are a line of compute processors. They are very similar to the Quadro graphics cards (they usually use the same chip) but have a stripped down display interface (if they have one at all). They are also available in a passively cooled formfactor that is suitable for use in rackmount servers.

NVidia's Quadro products are a line of professional graphics cards. They are simply very high quality GeForce products with extra memory, ECC, and a driver suite that is tailored towards specific CAD products rather than specific games. There are also other tweaks available on Quadro cards, such as 10-bit colour depth.

Tesla and Quadro products both have unlocked double precision floating point capabilities. These capabilities are crippled on GeForce graphics cards for marketing reasons (with the exception of a few Titan products).

AMD does not have any direct competitor to the Tesla cards. The FirePro line of video cards compete with the Quadro line.

Tesla cards are compute ONLY. They don't have any video output ports
Quadro are graphics cards and drivers optimized for workstation applications like CAD and 3D modeling.
GeForce are mainstream and gaming oriented cards. The drivers have optimizations for specific games.

GFLOPS are Giga-FLOPs (Floating Point Operations).

AMD's FireStream line of products is a direct competitor to Tesla (although FireStream is no longer manufactured).

There are some Tesla cards that have a single dual-link DVI port

 

[kanewolf]

Some old Tesla cards did have a graphics port but none of the newer ones do.