NVIDIA Tesla T4 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla T4 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla T4

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 6.7x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 500 Watt
  • Around 82% higher memory clock speed: 10000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
  • Around 6% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 18.798 vs 17.707
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 September 2018 vs 31 August 2012
Core clock speed 1005 MHz vs 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed 10000 MHz vs 5500 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 18.798 vs 17.707

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla T4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
18.798
17.707
Name NVIDIA Tesla T4 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
PassMark - G3D Mark 10616
PassMark - G2D Mark 592
Geekbench - OpenCL 61276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 127.622
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3026.812
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 18.798 17.707
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 119.936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 910.721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14076
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1781
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14076
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1976
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1781

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla T4 AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU104 New Zealand
Launch date 13 September 2018 31 August 2012
Place in performance rating 270 330
Type Workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1515 MHz
Core clock speed 1005 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 500 Watt
Transistor count 13,600 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 2x 3,789 gflops
Pipelines 2x 2048
Texture fill rate 2x 118.4 GTexel / s billion / sec

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 3x 8-pin
Length 292 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Memory clock speed 10000 MHz 5500 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 2x 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 2x 384 Bit
Memory type GDDR5