Tesla M2090 vs FirePro W9100

Place in the ranking	280	463
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.98	2.65
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name	Hawaii	GF110
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	26 March 2014 (10 years ago)	25 July 2011 (13 years ago)

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	2816	512
Core clock speed	930 MHz	651 MHz
Number of transistors	6,200 million	3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	750 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	163.7	41.66
Floating-point processing power	5.238 TFLOPS	1.332 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	48
TMUs	176	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	275 mm	248 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Form factor	full height / full length	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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	16 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	924 MHz
Memory bandwidth	320 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	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	+	-
Dual-link DVI support	+	-
HD сomponent video output	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.3	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	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	19.65	9.51
Recency	26 March 2014	25 July 2011
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	750 Watt	250 Watt

FirePro W9100 has a 106.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla M2090, on the other hand, has 200% lower power consumption.

The FirePro W9100 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.