Radeon HD 6790 vs Tesla M2070 Q

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6790 and Tesla M2070 Q, 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 6790 stacks up against Tesla M2070 Q, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6790 Tesla M2070 Q
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 225 Watt
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Tesla M2070 Q has 50% more power consumption, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla M2070 Q has 5 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6790 is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Tesla M2070 Q - with Fermi.
  • Core clock speed of Radeon HD 6790 is 266 MHz higher, than Tesla M2070 Q.
  • Radeon HD 6790 and Tesla M2070 Q are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Tesla M2070 Q is 50 mm longer, than Radeon HD 6790.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla M2070 Q is 2082 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6790.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 3−4
ultra / 1080p 4−5 1−2
QHD / 1440p 0−1 0−1
low / 720p 18−20 14−16
medium / 1080p 9−10 6−7
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6790 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 66% more, than Tesla M2070 Q.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6790 Tesla M2070 Q
Architecture Terascale 2 Fermi
Code name Barts GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 4 April 2011 25 July 2011
Pipelines 800 448
Core clock speed 840 MHz 574 MHz
Transistor count 1,700 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 33.60 32.14
Floating-point performance 1,344.0 gflops 1,027.7 gflops
Length 198 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1050 MHz 3132 MHz
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB/s 150.3 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) 122 Mh/s 94 Mh/s
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