AMD Radeon RX 5500 vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 5500 and NVIDIA Tesla M40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • Around 76% higher core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 948 MHz
  • Around 66% higher boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 1114 MHz
  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 743 vs 452
  • Around 13% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 44494 vs 39269
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 10 November 2015
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 948 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 1114 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 743 vs 452
Geekbench - OpenCL 44494 vs 39269

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M40

  • Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 213.9 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 19% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10465 vs 8784
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 213.9 GTexel / s vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 10465 vs 8784

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 5500
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla M40

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8784
10465
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
743
452
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
44494
39269
Name AMD Radeon RX 5500 NVIDIA Tesla M40
PassMark - G3D Mark 8784 10465
PassMark - G2D Mark 743 452
Geekbench - OpenCL 44494 39269
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 183.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2637.997
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 13.059
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 160.359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 688.388

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 5500 NVIDIA Tesla M40

Essentials

Architecture RDNA Maxwell 2.0
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 10 November 2015
Place in performance rating 268 264
Type Desktop Workstation
Code name GM200

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1845 MHz 1114 MHz
Compute units 22
Core clock speed 1670 MHz 948 MHz
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.2 TFLOPs
Pixel fill rate 59 GP/s
Stream Processors 1408
Texture fill rate 162.36 GT/s 213.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 8,000 million
Floating-point performance 6,844 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Pipelines 3072

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Recommended system power (PSU) 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6