FirePro D700 vs Tesla M60

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Tesla M60 and FirePro D700, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Tesla M60
2015
8 GB GDDR5, 300 Watt
19.57
+39.7%

Tesla M60 outperforms D700 by a considerable 40% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking281367
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.713.69
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGM204Tahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date30 August 2015 (9 years ago)18 January 2014 (10 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 cores20482048
Core clock speed557 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1178 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,200 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt274 Watt
Texture fill rate150.8108.8
Floating-point processing power4.825 TFLOPS3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs128128

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm279 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1370 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 GB/s263.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.2-

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 19.57 14.01
Recency 30 August 2015 18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 274 Watt

Tesla M60 has a 39.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, and a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

FirePro D700, on the other hand, has 9.5% lower power consumption.

The Tesla M60 is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D700 in performance tests.


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