Radeon HD 6990 vs Tesla C2070

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6990 and Tesla C2070, 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 C2070, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6990 Tesla C2070
Power consumption (TDP) 375 Watt 238 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI
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  • Radeon HD 6990 has 57% more power consumption, than Tesla C2070.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla C2070 has 4 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6990.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Tesla C2070 - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 256 MHz higher, than Tesla C2070.
  • Radeon HD 6990 and Tesla C2070 are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6990 is 47 mm longer, than Tesla C2070.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon HD 6990 is 2012 MHz higher, than Tesla C2070.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 16−18
ultra / 1080p 9−10 9−10
QHD / 1440p 3−4 3−4
low / 720p 30−35 30−35
medium / 1080p 18−20 21−24
The average gaming FPS of Tesla C2070 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 13% more, than Radeon HD 6990.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6990 Tesla C2070
Architecture TeraScale 3 Fermi
Code name Antilles GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 8 March 2011 25 July 2011
Pipelines 1536 448
Core clock speed 830 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 79.68 32.14
Floating-point performance 2x 2,549.8 gflops 1,030.4 gflops
Length 295 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB/s 143.4 GB/s
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 265 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 24 Mh/s
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