NVIDIA Tesla X2090 vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla X2090 and AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand 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 X2090

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla X2090

Around 14% higher texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 32.0 GTexel / s
Around 4% better floating-point performance: 1,331.2 gflops vs 1,280.0 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB

Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s vs 32.0 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,331.2 gflops vs 1,280.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 56% higher pipelines: 800 vs 512
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 19% higher memory clock speed: 4400 MHz vs 3700 MHz

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 650 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 512
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	4400 MHz vs 3700 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla X2090	AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GF110	Broadway
Launch date	25 July 2011	12 July 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,331.2 gflops	1,280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	512	800
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s	32.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	177.6 GB / s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz	4400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5