Nvidia scraps the Tesla brand

Since the first product from 2007, Nvidia’s graphics card series Tesla has offered calculation cards based on the company’s usual graphics processors, specially developed for calculations via the CUDA and OpenCL developer interfaces. First out were the trio C870, D870 and S870, which were based on the graphics circuit G80, which in consumer attire was best known as the Geforce 8800 GTX.

Since then, each generation of graphics chips from Nvidia has been sold in three guises – Geforce, Tesla and Quadro. According to the German magazine Heise, Nvidia is now choosing to close down the series, citing that the company wants to avoid confusion between its products and Elon Musk’s famous vehicle company Tesla.

As early as the autumn of 2019, Nvidia slowly but surely began deleting references to Tesla as a product series, something that was not least noticed at the launch of its new architecture Ampere, where references to Tesla were absent. The jacket is instead shouldered by a calculation module called Nvidia A100, which is based on the graphics circuit GA100. This box is manufactured at 7 nanometers with 54.2 billion transistors.

Nvidia’s last product to bear the name Tesla was the TU104-based Tesla T4, which now only goes by the name Nvidia T4.

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