NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1329 MHz vs 1018 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 1430 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Launch date 20 June 2016 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed 1329 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 500 Watt
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1430 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

  • 6.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 331.5 GTexel / s
  • Around 57% higher pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 3584
  • Around 8% better floating-point performance: 2x 5,733 gflops vs 10,609 gflops
Texture fill rate 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 331.5 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2x 2816 vs 3584
Floating-point performance 2x 5,733 gflops vs 10,609 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Name NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Geekbench - OpenCL 78384
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.417
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 4198.719
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 19.996
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 218.069
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 940.599
PassMark - G3D Mark 8574
PassMark - G2D Mark 755
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 2.0
Code name GP100 Vesuvius
Launch date 20 June 2016 29 April 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $4,599 $1,499
Place in performance rating 187 184
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Price now $1,099.99
Value for money (0-100) 11.14

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1329 MHz 1018 MHz
Core clock speed 1190 MHz
Floating-point performance 10,609 gflops 2x 5,733 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 3584 2x 2816
Texture fill rate 331.5 GTexel / s 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 15,300 million 6,200 million
Stream Processors 5632

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 307 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2 x 8-pin
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 720.9 GB / s 640 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 1430 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)