NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla P40 and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 75% higher core clock speed: 1303 MHz vs 743 MHz
  • 30.9x more texture fill rate: 367.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
  • 12x more pipelines: 3840 vs 320
  • 24.7x better floating-point performance: 11,758 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 80 nm
  • 48x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 512 MB
  • 6x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1656 MHz
  • 19.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12678 vs 660
  • Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 450 vs 397
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2016 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 1303 MHz vs 743 MHz
Texture fill rate 367.4 GTexel / s vs 11.89 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3840 vs 320
Floating-point performance 11,758 gflops vs 475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 1656 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12678 vs 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 450 vs 397

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

  • Around 16% lower typical power consumption: 215 Watt vs 250 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 215 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla P40
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12678
660
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
450
397
Name NVIDIA Tesla P40 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 12678 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 450 397
Geekbench - OpenCL 52169
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 ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Essentials

Architecture Pascal TeraScale
Code name GP102 R600
Launch date 13 September 2016 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $5,699 $399
Place in performance rating 231 377
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1531 MHz
Core clock speed 1303 MHz 743 MHz
Floating-point performance 11,758 gflops 475.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 3840 320
Texture fill rate 367.4 GTexel / s 11.89 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 215 Watt
Transistor count 11,800 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 480.4 GB / s 106.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz 1656 MHz
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR3