NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB and AMD Radeon HD 6550A 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 1246 MHz vs 550 MHz
  • 28.3x more texture fill rate: 441.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
  • 10.7x more pipelines: 5120 vs 480
  • 22.6x better floating-point performance: 14,131 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1752 MHz vs 1600 MHz
  • 17.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12328 vs 708
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 June 2017 vs 7 February 2011
Core clock speed 1246 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s vs 15.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 480
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops vs 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 1752 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 12328 vs 708

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6550A

  • 7.1x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 609 vs 484
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 609 vs 484

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6550A

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
484
609
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12328
708
Name NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB AMD Radeon HD 6550A
Geekbench - OpenCL 170068
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11451
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3198
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3198
PassMark - G2D Mark 484 609
PassMark - G3D Mark 12328 708

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB AMD Radeon HD 6550A

Essentials

Architecture Volta TeraScale 2
Code name GV100 Pinewood
Launch date 21 June 2017 7 February 2011
Place in performance rating 219 221
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz
Core clock speed 1246 MHz 550 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops 624.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 5120 480
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s 15.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 35 Watt
Transistor count 21,100 million 627 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 897.0 GB / s 28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1752 MHz 1600 MHz
Memory type HBM2 DDR3