Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking656not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Power efficiency20.91no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGV100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)21 June 2017 (7 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 cores5125120
Core clock speedno data1246 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data441.6
Floating-point processing powerno data14.13 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data320
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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataHBM2
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus widthno data4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data876 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data897.0 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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 21 June 2017
Chip lithography 14 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 300 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 4 months, and 1900% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB, on the other hand, has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB
Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB

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