Tesla P100 SXM2 vs Radeon R5 240 OEM

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameOlandGP100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 November 2013 (11 years ago)5 April 2016 (8 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 cores3843584
Core clock speed730 MHz1328 MHz
Boost clock speed780 MHz1480 MHz
Number of transistors950 million15,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate18.72331.5
Floating-point processing power0.599 TFLOPS10.61 TFLOPS
ROPs896
TMUs24224

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 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3HBM2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz704 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s720.9 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 HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 November 2013 5 April 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 300 Watt

R5 240 OEM has 500% lower power consumption.

Tesla P100 SXM2, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 240 OEM and Tesla P100 SXM2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 240 OEM is a desktop card while Tesla P100 SXM2 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R5 240 OEM
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