Nvidia Tesla C2050

[columbus]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6391103&CatId=4044

any idea if this is good for AH2?

[skribetm]

that is a professional-grade/workstation card for 3D rendering/modeling.
it will work with AH2, but you'll be paying a lot more for the same gaming performance as a consumer-grade card(GTX 470/480).

The Fermi chip is large: 512 stream processors, in sixteen groups of 32, and 3.0 billion transistors, manufactured by TSMC in a 40 nm process. It is Nvidia's first chip to support OpenGL 4.0 and Direct3D 11. At launch, no product was available with all the stream processors active: the GTX 480 has one group disabled, the GTX 470 has two groups and one memory controller disabled, and the GTX 465 has five groups and two memory controllers disabled. Consumer GeForce cards come with 256MB attached to each of the enabled GDDR5 memory controllers, for a total of 1.5, 1.25 or 1.0GB; the Tesla C2050 has 512MB on each of six controllers, and the Tesla C2070 has 1024MB per controller. Both the Tesla cards have fourteen active groups of stream processors.

In the more expensive "Tesla" configurations, the chip features optional ECC protection on the memory, and can perform one double-precision floating-point operation per cycle per core; the consumer GeForce cards are artificially driver restricted to one DP operation per four cycles. With these features, combined with support for Visual Studio and C++, Nvidia hopes to appeal to the High-Performance Computer users who might presently be using Tesla systems.

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so, it has same number of stream processors as the GTX470 but with 512MB of memory on each memory controller instead of 256MB.
but you really only need ~1GB total memory for 1080P AH2 gaming. 

[AirFlyer]

Sure isn't, like the Nvidia Quadro line, the Tesla line isn't developed for running games, it has other purposes like doing massive amounts of calculations... I don't even know if the Tesla can output images. Stick to the Geforce line if your looking for a videocard to play games.

[Chalenge]

I think the C20## line is just to use up more Fermi units so they can recoup some losses and move on to the way they really intended for things to be.

I think Tiger is overpriced too.