Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB vs Radeon Pro Vega 56

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking173not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation44.70no data
Power efficiency10.47no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameVega 10GP100
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)20 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 $4,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores35843584
Core clock speed1138 MHz1190 MHz
Boost clock speed1250 MHz1329 MHz
Number of transistors12,500 million15,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate280.0297.7
Floating-point processing power8.96 TFLOPS9.526 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs224224

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeHBM2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width2048 Bit3072 Bit
Memory clock speed786 MHz715 MHz
Memory bandwidth402.4 GB/s549.1 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.1.1251.2.131
CUDA-6.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 20 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 250 Watt

Pro Vega 56 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 19% lower power consumption.

Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB, on the other hand, has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro Vega 56 and Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro Vega 56 is a mobile workstation card while Tesla P100 PCIe 12 GB is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56
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