Tesla M2090 vs Quadro 6000

Place in performance ranking	520	430
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.30	0.52
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	GF100	GF110
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 December 2010 (13 years ago)	25 July 2011 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$4,399	no data
Current price	$1730 (0.4x MSRP)	$1844

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla M2090 has 73% better value for money than Quadro 6000.

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	448	512
Core clock speed	574 MHz	651 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	204 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	41.66
Floating-point performance	1,027.7 gflops	1,331.2 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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	248 mm	248 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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	6 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	2988 MHz	3696 MHz
Memory bandwidth	143.4 GB/s	177.4 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

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	2.0	2.0

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.

Quadro 6000 6.99

Tesla M2090 9.47
+35.5%

Tesla M2090 outperforms Quadro 6000 by 35% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

Quadro 6000 40

Tesla M2090 49
+22.5%

Tesla M2090 outperforms Quadro 6000 by 23% in Octane Render OctaneBench.