GRID K260Q vs Tesla M6

Place in the ranking	344	539
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	0.96
Power efficiency	11.00	2.32
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GM204	GK104
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	30 August 2015 (9 years ago)	28 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$937

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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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	1536	1536
Core clock speed	930 MHz	745 MHz
Boost clock speed	1180 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	5,200 million	3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	113.3	95.36
Floating-point processing power	3.625 TFLOPS	2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	96	128

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Width	MXM Module	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz	1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.4 GB/s	160.0 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

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.1.126
CUDA	5.2	3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Tesla M6 13.93
+111%

GRID K260Q 6.60

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

Tesla M6 6226
+111%

GRID K260Q 2949

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	13.93	6.60
Recency	30 August 2015	28 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	225 Watt

Tesla M6 has a 111.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 125% lower power consumption.

The Tesla M6 is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID K260Q in performance tests.