NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture is enabled on GeForce®, Quadro®, and Tesla™ products. Whereas GeForce and Quadro are designed for consumer graphics and professional visualization respectively, the Tesla product family is designed ground-up for parallel computing and offers exclusive computing features.

The TESLA ADVANTAGE

BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE
Tesla products are designed with exclusive features to maximize performance for computing professionals.

• Full double precision floating point performance
• 515 GigaFlops on Tesla C2050, M2050 products
• Higher double precision than consumer products
• Faster PCIe communication
• The only NVIDIA product with two DMA engines for bi-directional PCIe communication
• Higher performance on technical applications with large data sets
• Larger on-board memory (3 Gigabyte and 6 Gigabyte)
• Faster communication with InfiniBand using NVIDIA GPUDirect™
• Special Linux patch, InfiniBand driver, and CUDA driver
• Higher performance CUDA driver for Windows OS
• TCC driver reduces CUDA kernel overhead and enables Windows Remote Desktop and Windows Services

BUILT FOR RELIABILITY
Computational professionals depend on mission critical applications to run reliably without data error. All Tesla products undergo zero error tolerance testing in the most strenuous conditions for hundreds of times longer than any other NVIDIA products. Tesla exclusive features include:

• ECC protection for uncompromised data reliability
• For memories inside the GPU and the external GDDR5 memory
• Zero error tolerance stress testing
• Stress tested in manufacturing for several days
• Manufactured by NVIDIA and guaranteed to be of highest quality
• Added margin in memory and core clocks for added reliability
• Enterprise level support
• Three year warranty, higher priority bug resolutions and feature requests, and product lifecycle of 18-24 months
• ISV Certification
• HPC software vendors only certify software on Tesla products

BUILT FOR HPC SOLUTIONS
HPC customers have unique requirements. Only Tesla business unit provides products and solutions to meet these special needs.

• Integrated OEM Systems
• Innovative OEM servers, blades, and workstations designed specifically for Tesla products
• Steady supply and availability of Tesla products
• 18-24 month availability and life cycle
• Data center warranty
• 3 year warranty from NVIDIA and OEM partners on Tesla products
• Cluster management and GPU monitoring software
• GPU temperature monitoring, fan speed, and power
• Exclusive access to GPUs in a cluster
• HPC expertise in pre-sales and post-sales support
• Total HPC solution expertise provided by CUDA / OpenCL tuning engineers, solution architects, and dedicated sales team

Most benefits listed above are also available on Quadro product family.