NVIDIA Tesla M6: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla M6 sales 30 August 2015. This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Tesla M6: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	229
Value for money	6.45
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name	GM204
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	30 August 2015 (7 years old)
Current price	$350	of 158889 (A100 PCIe)

Technical specs

Tesla M6's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla M6's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	930 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1180 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	5,200 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	113.3	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	3,625 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla M6 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla M6: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	160.4 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla M6. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Tesla M6, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	5.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla M6. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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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.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla M6 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Tesla M6 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

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