Tesla V100 SXM2 vs Iris Plus Graphics 655

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking654not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.73no data
ArchitectureGeneration 9.5 (2016−2020)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameCoffee Lake GT3eGV100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date3 April 2018 (6 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores3845120
Core clock speed300 MHz1370 MHz
Boost clock speed1050 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm+++12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate50.40438.4
Floating-point processing power0.8064 TFLOPSno data
ROPs6128
TMUs48320

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).

InterfaceRing BusPCIe 3.0 x16
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeSystem SharedHBM2
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1758 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data900.1 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12.0
Shader Model6.45.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 April 2018 21 June 2017
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 250 Watt

Iris Plus Graphics 655 has an age advantage of 9 months, and 1566.7% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 SXM2, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Plus Graphics 655 and Tesla V100 SXM2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Plus Graphics 655 is a desktop card while Tesla V100 SXM2 is a workstation one.


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Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655
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