Tesla M6 vs FirePro W9100

Place in performance ranking	246	307
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	3.00	8.27
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	Hawaii	GM204
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	26 March 2014 (10 years ago)	30 August 2015 (8 years ago)
Current price	$1566	$350

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla M6 has 176% better value for money than FirePro W9100.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2816	1536
Core clock speed	930 MHz	930 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1180 MHz
Number of transistors	6,200 million	5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	750 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	163.7	113.3
Floating-point performance	5,238 gflops	3,625 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	275 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	MXM Module
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s	160.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	1	no data
Dual-link DVI support	1	no data
HD сomponent video output	1	no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.3	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.1.126
CUDA	no data	5.2

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FirePro W9100 20.62
+27%

Tesla M6 16.23

FirePro W9100 outperforms Tesla M6 by 27% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

FirePro W9100 7986
+27.1%

Tesla M6 6284

FirePro W9100 outperforms Tesla M6 by 27% in Passmark.