Tesla M2090 vs FirePro W8000

Place in the ranking	430	465
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.08	no data
Power efficiency	3.28	2.61
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Tahiti	GF110
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	14 June 2012 (12 years ago)	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,599	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	1792	512
Core clock speed	900 MHz	651 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	100.8	41.66
Floating-point processing power	3.226 TFLOPS	1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	48
TMUs	112	64

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	PCIe 3.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	248 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-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	4 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1375 MHz	924 MHz
Memory bandwidth	176 GB/s	177.4 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	4x DisplayPort, 1x SDI	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	+	-
DisplayPort count	4	no data
Dual-link DVI support	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A
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	10.76	9.51
Recency	14 June 2012	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	250 Watt

FirePro W8000 has a 13.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 months, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 11.1% lower power consumption.

Tesla M2090, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The FirePro W8000 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M2090 in performance tests.

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