Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB vs Radeon RX 550 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking555not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.47no data
Power efficiency9.56no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameLexaGP100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date2 July 2017 (7 years ago)20 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79.99 $5,699

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 cores6403584
Core clock speed1100 MHz1190 MHz
Boost clock speed1287 MHz1329 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million15,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate51.48297.7
Floating-point processing power1.647 TFLOPS9.526 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs40224

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz715 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s732.2 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 outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA-6.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 July 2017 20 June 2016
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt

RX 550 Mobile has an age advantage of 1 year, a 14.3% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 Mobile and Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 550 Mobile is a notebook card while Tesla P100 PCIe 16 GB is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile
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