Radeon HD 6990 vs Tesla M60

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6990 and Tesla M60, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 6990 stacks up against Tesla M60, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6990 Tesla M60
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 300 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 6990 has 25% more power consumption, than Tesla M60.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is connected by PCIe 2.0 x16, and Tesla M60 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
  • Tesla M60 has 6 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6990.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Tesla M60 - with Maxwell 2.0.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 273 MHz higher, than Tesla M60.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Tesla M60 - by 28 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is 28 mm longer, than Tesla M60.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla M60 is 12 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6990.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 35−40
ultra / 1080p 9−10 24−27
QHD / 1440p 3−4 18−20
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 30−35 60−65
medium / 1080p 18−20 45−50
The average gaming FPS of Tesla M60 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 153% more, than Radeon HD 6990.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6990 Tesla M60
Architecture TeraScale 3 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Antilles GM204
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 8 March 2011 30 August 2015
Pipelines 1536 2048
Core clock speed 830 MHz 557 MHz
Boost Clock 1178 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 79.68 150.8
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops 2x 4,833 gflops
Length 295 mm 267 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 160.4 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_1)
Shader Model 5.0 6.4
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan N/A 1.1.126
CUDA 5.2
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 265 Mh/s 432 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 24 Mh/s
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