NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla P40 and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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: 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).

NVIDIA Tesla P40

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1303 MHz vs 675 MHz
13.6x more texture fill rate: 367.4 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
6x more pipelines: 3840 vs 640
13.6x better floating-point performance: 11,758 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
12x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 2 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
8.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12267 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 September 2016 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1303 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	367.4 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3840 vs 640
Floating-point performance	11,758 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12267 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 566 vs 439

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	566 vs 439

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla P40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

12267

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

439

566

Name	NVIDIA Tesla P40	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	12267	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	439	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	62481
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 - Manhattan (Frames)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	9538
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3340

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla P40	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP102	Heathrow
Launch date	13 September 2016	24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,699
Place in performance rating	237	234
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz
Core clock speed	1303 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	11,758 gflops	864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3840	640
Texture fill rate	367.4 GTexel / s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	480.4 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5X	GDDR5
Shared memory		0