NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla P40 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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

ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P40

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 1303 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 367.4 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
2.4x more pipelines: 3840 vs 2x 800
5.9x better floating-point performance: 11,758 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 55 nm
24x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 2x 512 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 1990 MHz
10.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11622 vs 1132

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 September 2016 vs 7 November 2008
Core clock speed	1303 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	367.4 GTexel / s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines	3840 vs 2x 800
Floating-point performance	11,758 gflops vs 2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz vs 1990 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11622 vs 1132

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 542 vs 419

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	542 vs 419

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla P40
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11622

1132

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

419

542

Name	NVIDIA Tesla P40	ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark	11622	1132
PassMark - G2D Mark	419	542
Geekbench - OpenCL	62468
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 4850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	TeraScale
Code name	GP102	R700
Launch date	13 September 2016	7 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,699	$420
Place in performance rating	249	251
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz
Core clock speed	1303 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	11,758 gflops	2x 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	3840	2x 800
Texture fill rate	367.4 GTexel / s	2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	11,800 million	956 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	480.4 GB / s	2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	10008 MHz	1990 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5X	GDDR3