AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 and NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1471 MHz vs 1380 MHz
  • 747.3x more texture fill rate: 330.00 GTexel/s vs 441.6 GTexel / s
  • Around 19% lower typical power consumption: 210 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13222 vs 12328
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 768 vs 484
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 14462 vs 11451
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3717 vs 3555
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3361 vs 3198
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 14462 vs 11451
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3717 vs 3555
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3361 vs 3198
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 August 2017 vs 21 June 2017
Boost clock speed 1471 MHz vs 1380 MHz
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s vs 441.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 210 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13222 vs 12328
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 vs 484
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462 vs 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3198
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462 vs 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3198

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 1246 MHz vs 1156 MHz
  • Around 43% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 3584
  • 1345.8x better floating-point performance: 14,131 gflops vs 10.5 TFLOPs
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 14 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1752 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 170068 vs 163998
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1246 MHz vs 1156 MHz
Pipelines 5120 vs 3584
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops vs 10.5 TFLOPs
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 14 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1752 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 170068 vs 163998

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13222
12328
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
768
484
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
163998
170068
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14462
11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3198
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
14462
11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3198
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB
PassMark - G3D Mark 13222 12328
PassMark - G2D Mark 768 484
Geekbench - OpenCL 163998 170068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14462 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 3198
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14462 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 3198
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 6879

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Volta
Code name Vega 10 GV100
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 14 August 2017 21 June 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 224 222
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1471 MHz 1380 MHz
Compute units 56
Core clock speed 1156 MHz 1246 MHz
Floating-point performance 10.5 TFLOPs 14,131 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 12 nm
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 10.5 TFLOPs
Pipelines 3584 5120
Pixel fill rate 94.00 GP/s
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 3584
Texture fill rate 330.00 GTexel/s 441.6 GTexel / s
Texture Units 256
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 210 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 12,500 million 21,100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 410 GB/s 897.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2048 bit 4096 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 1752 MHz
Memory type HBM2 HBM2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore