Tesla V100 PCIe 16 GB vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	149	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	19.88	no data
Power efficiency	7.94	no data
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10	GV100
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	27 June 2017 (7 years ago)	21 June 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	4096	5120
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	1246 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	1380 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	441.6
Floating-point processing power	13.11 TFLOPS	14.13 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	128
TMUs	256	320
Tensor Cores	no data	640

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 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 type	HBM2	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	876 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	897.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.4	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131
CUDA	-	7.0

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

14 nm

12 nm

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