AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA Tesla P40

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon VII 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, 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 VII

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 7% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1303 MHz
  • Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 1531 MHz
  • Around 18% higher texture fill rate: 432.24 GT/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 16 nm
  • Around 34% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 16413 vs 12267
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 789 vs 439
  • Around 47% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 91608 vs 62231
  • Around 31% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 4659.199 vs 3559.383
  • Around 9% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 21.606 vs 19.757
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11724 vs 9538
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3360 vs 3340
  • Around 23% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11724 vs 9538
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3360 vs 3340
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 February 2019 vs 13 September 2016
Core clock speed 1400 MHz vs 1303 MHz
Boost clock speed 1750 MHz vs 1531 MHz
Texture fill rate 432.24 GT/s vs 367.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 16 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 16413 vs 12267
PassMark - G2D Mark 789 vs 439
Geekbench - OpenCL 91608 vs 62231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4659.199 vs 3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.606 vs 19.757
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11724 vs 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 vs 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11724 vs 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 vs 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 vs 3340

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • Around 46% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 300.355 vs 206.353
  • 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 204.32 vs 69.256
  • 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 1214.142 vs 499.927
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 300.355 vs 206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 204.32 vs 69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1214.142 vs 499.927

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon VII
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P40

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
16413
12267
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
789
439
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
91608
62231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
206.353
300.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4659.199
3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
21.606
19.757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
69.256
204.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
499.927
1214.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11724
9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11724
9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3717
3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3360
3340
Name AMD Radeon VII NVIDIA Tesla P40
PassMark - G3D Mark 16413 12267
PassMark - G2D Mark 789 439
Geekbench - OpenCL 91608 62231
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 206.353 300.355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4659.199 3559.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 21.606 19.757
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 69.256 204.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 499.927 1214.142
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11724 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3360 3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11724 9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3360 3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2308

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon VII NVIDIA Tesla P40

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.1 Pascal
Code name Vega 20 GP102
Design AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation 5th Gen
Launch date 7 February 2019 13 September 2016
Launch price (MSRP) $699 $5,699
Place in performance rating 238 237
Price now $699.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 32.74

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1750 MHz 1531 MHz
Compute units 60
Core clock speed 1400 MHz 1303 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.8 TFLOPs
Pipelines 3840 3840
Pixel fill rate 115.26 GP/s
Stream Processors 3840
Texture fill rate 432.24 GT/s 367.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 13,230 million 11,800 million
Floating-point performance 11,758 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort No outputs
DisplayPort count 3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 305 mm 267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 W
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

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

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 1024 GB/s 480.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz 10008 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5X

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