NVIDIA Tesla S2050 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla S2050 and AMD Radeon HD 6990M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA Tesla S2050

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla S2050

10.8x more texture fill rate: 4x 32.1 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 40.0 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 4x 448 vs 1120
2.6x better floating-point performance: 4x 1,027.7 gflops vs 1,601.6 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 4x 3 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	4x 32.1 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 40.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4x 448 vs 1120
Floating-point performance	4x 1,027.7 gflops vs 1,601.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	4x 3 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Around 25% higher core clock speed: 715 MHz vs 574 MHz
9x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 900 Watt
Around 16% higher memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 3092 MHz

Core clock speed	715 MHz vs 574 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 900 Watt
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 3092 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla S2050	AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF100	Blackcomb
Launch date	25 July 2011	12 July 2011
Launch price (MSRP)	$11,999
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	574 MHz	715 MHz
Floating-point performance	4x 1,027.7 gflops	1,601.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	4x 448	1120
Texture fill rate	4x 32.1 GTexel / s billion / sec	40.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	900 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4x 3 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	4x 148.4 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	4x 384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3092 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0