NVIDIA Tesla X2070 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla X2070 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 X2070

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla X2070

3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 3700 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz vs 3600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 715 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 40.0 GTexel / s vs 36.4 GTexel / s
2.2x more pipelines: 1120 vs 512
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 1,601.6 gflops vs 1,331.2 gflops
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt

Core clock speed	715 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	40.0 GTexel / s vs 36.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1120 vs 512
Floating-point performance	1,601.6 gflops vs 1,331.2 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla X2070	AMD Radeon HD 6990M
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF110	Blackcomb
Launch date	25 July 2011	12 July 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	715 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,331.2 gflops	1,601.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	1120
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s	40.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 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	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	177.6 GB / s	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0