Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB vs ATI Radeon 9500 PRO

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameR300GV100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 October 2002 (22 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 coresno data5120
Core clock speed275 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1380 MHz
Number of transistors110 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rate2.200441.6
Floating-point processing powerno data14.13 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs8320
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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDRHBM2
Maximum RAM amount128 MB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed270 MHz876 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/s897.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2002 27 March 2018
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 32 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm

Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB has an age advantage of 15 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9500 PRO and Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9500 PRO is a desktop card while Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB is a workstation one.


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