Tesla PG503-216 vs Radeon RX 6900

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking22not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.98no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNavi 21GV100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date28 October 2020 (4 years ago)26 November 2019 (4 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 cores46085120
Core clock speedno data1312 MHz
Boost clock speed2105 MHz1530 MHz
Number of transistors23,000 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)255 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate606.2489.6
Floating-point processing power19.4 TFLOPS15.67 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs288320
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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6HBM2
Maximum RAM amount16 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed16 GB/s1106 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s1,133 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 HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.21.2
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 October 2020 26 November 2019
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 255 Watt 250 Watt

RX 6900 has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 71.4% more advanced lithography process.

Tesla PG503-216, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6900 and Tesla PG503-216. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6900 is a desktop card while Tesla PG503-216 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6900
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