Nvidia Tesla is the former name for a line of products developed by

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targeted at

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or general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), named after pioneering electrical engineer

Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (;"Tesla"
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. Its products began using GPUs from the G80 series, and have continued to accompany the release of new chips. They are programmable using the

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s. The Nvidia Tesla product line competed with AMD's Radeon Instinct and Intel Xeon Phi lines of deep learning and GPU cards. Nvidia retired the Tesla brand in May 2020, reportedly because of potential confusion with the brand of cars. Its new GPUs are branded Nvidia Data Center GPUs as in the

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-based A100 GPU.

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servers feature Nvidia GPGPUs.

Overview

Offering computational power much greater than traditional

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, the Tesla products targeted the

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market. , Nvidia Teslas power some of the world's fastest

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, including

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and Tianhe-1A, in

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. Tesla cards have four times the double precision performance of a Fermi-based Nvidia GeForce card of similar single precision performance. Unlike Nvidia's consumer

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cards and professional

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cards, Tesla cards were originally unable to output images to a display. However, the last Tesla C-class products included one Dual-Link DVI port.

Applications

Tesla products are primarily used in simulations and in large-scale calculations (especially floating-point calculations), and for high-end image generation for professional and scientific fields. In 2013, the defense industry accounted for less than one-sixth of Tesla sales, but Sumit Gupta predicted increasing sales to the

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market.

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NVIDIA Data Center GPUs

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