FirePro S9000 vs Tesla M2070

Place in the ranking	632	385
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.10	0.98
Power efficiency	1.51	4.05
Architecture	Fermi (2010−2014)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	GF100	Tahiti
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)	24 August 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,099	$2,499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro S9000 has 880% better value for money than Tesla M2070.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	448	1792
Core clock speed	574 MHz	900 MHz
Number of transistors	3,100 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	350 Watt
Texture fill rate	32.14	100.8
Floating-point processing power	1.03 TFLOPS	3.226 TFLOPS
ROPs	48	32
TMUs	56	112

Form factor & 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	no data	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	248 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	no data	full height / full length
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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	783 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	150.3 GB/s	264 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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	No outputs	1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count	no data	1
Dual-link DVI support	-	+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	2.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.88	13.11
Recency	25 July 2011	24 August 2012
Chip lithography	40 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	350 Watt

Tesla M2070 has 55.6% lower power consumption.

FirePro S9000, on the other hand, has a 168.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

The FirePro S9000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2070 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.