AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro W6900X and NVIDIA Tesla P40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1303 MHz
  • Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 2150 MHz vs 1531 MHz
  • 1872.6x more texture fill rate: 688.0 GTexel/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 3840
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 24 GB
  • 2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 141178 vs 53461
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3739 vs 3699
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3739 vs 3699
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 vs 13 September 2016
Core clock speed 1825 MHz vs 1303 MHz
Boost clock speed 2150 MHz vs 1531 MHz
Texture fill rate 688.0 GTexel/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 3840
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 16 nm
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 24 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 141178 vs 53461
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3739 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3739 vs 3699

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 W
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 300 W
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W6900X
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P40

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
141178
53461
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3739
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3739
3699
Name AMD Radeon Pro W6900X NVIDIA Tesla P40
Geekbench - OpenCL 141178 53461
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3739 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3739 3699
PassMark - G3D Mark 12678
PassMark - G2D Mark 450
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 300.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 204.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1214.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3340

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X NVIDIA Tesla P40

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 2.0 Pascal
Code name Navi 21 GP102
Launch date 3 Aug 2021 13 September 2016
Place in performance rating 243 229
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $5,699

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2150 MHz 1531 MHz
Compute units 80
Core clock speed 1825 MHz 1303 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,376 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 44.03 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 22.02 TFLOPS
Pipelines 5120 3840
Pixel fill rate 275.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 688.0 GTexel/s 367.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 W 250 Watt
Transistor count 26800 million 11,800 million
Floating-point performance 11,758 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.14x Thunderbolt No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Quad-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 W
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width 120 mm 4.7 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 512.0 GB/s 480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 16 Gbps effective 10008 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5X