NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 390

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB and AMD Radeon R9 390 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.8x more texture fill rate: 441.6 GTexel / s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 5120 vs 2560
  • 2.8x better floating-point performance: 14,131 gflops vs 5,120 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 10% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
  • Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 1752 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 3.8x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 166109 vs 44112
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 11451 vs 10445
  • Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 11451 vs 10445
  • Around 41% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12633 vs 8936
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 21 June 2017 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed 1380 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s vs 160.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 2560
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops vs 5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 275 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed 1752 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 166109 vs 44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11451 vs 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11451 vs 10445
PassMark - G3D Mark 12633 vs 8936

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3708 vs 3555
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3708 vs 3555
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3198
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3198
  • Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 800 vs 515
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3708 vs 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3708 vs 3555
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3198
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3198
PassMark - G2D Mark 800 vs 515

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
166109
44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11451
10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
11451
10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3555
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3555
3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3198
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3198
3353
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
515
800
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
12633
8936
Name NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB AMD Radeon R9 390
Geekbench - OpenCL 166109 44112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11451 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11451 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3555 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3555 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3198 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3198 3353
PassMark - G2D Mark 515 800
PassMark - G3D Mark 12633 8936
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.381
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3958

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB AMD Radeon R9 390

Essentials

Architecture Volta GCN 2.0
Code name GV100 Grenada
Launch date 21 June 2017 18 June 2015
Place in performance rating 209 297
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $329

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 1246 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops 5,120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 5120 2560
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s 160.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 275 Watt
Transistor count 21,100 million 6,200 million
Compute units 40
Stream Processors 2560

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 897.0 GB / s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 1752 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore