Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking114not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.29no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIGV100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)27 March 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40965120
Core clock speed1126 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors10400 Million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data441.6
Floating-point processing powerno data14.13 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data320
Tensor Coresno data640

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz876 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data897.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA+7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 September 2015 27 March 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 250 Watt

Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB has an age advantage of 2 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 32% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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