Radeon HD 6950 vs Tesla M2070 Q

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6950 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 6950 stacks up against Tesla M2070 Q, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon HD 6950 Tesla M2070 Q
Power consumption (TDP) 500 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 2 GB 6 GB
Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
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  • Radeon HD 6950 has 122% more power consumption, than Tesla M2070 Q.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 2.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Tesla M2070 Q has 4 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6950.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon HD 6950 is build with TeraScale 3 architecture, and Tesla M2070 Q - with Fermi.
  • Radeon HD 6950 and Tesla M2070 Q are manufactured by 40 nm process technology.
  • Radeon HD 6950 is 19 mm longer, than Tesla M2070 Q.
  • Memory clock speed of Tesla M2070 Q is 1882 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6950.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 14−16 3−4
ultra / 1080p 8−9 1−2
QHD / 1440p 3−4 0−1
low / 720p 27−30 14−16
medium / 1080p 16−18 6−7
The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6950 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 183% more, than Tesla M2070 Q.

Full Specs

  Radeon HD 6950 Tesla M2070 Q
Architecture TeraScale 3 Fermi
Code name Cayman GF100
Type Desktop Workstation
Release date 14 December 2010 25 July 2011
Pipelines 1408 448
Core clock speed 574 MHz
Boost Clock 800 MHz
Transistor count 2,640 million 3,100 million
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Texture fill rate 70.40 32.14
Floating-point performance 2,252.8 gflops 1,027.7 gflops
Length 267 mm 248 mm
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 3132 MHz
Memory bandwidth 150.3 GB/s
DirectX 12 (11_0)
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan N/A
CUDA 2.0
Bus support PCIe 2.0 x16
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 244 Mh/s 94 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
Design reference
CrossFire +
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