Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q vs Tesla P100 DGXS

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated145
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.55
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGP100TU104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date5 April 2016 (8 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores35843072
Core clock speed1328 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1480 MHz1350 MHz
Number of transistors15,300 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate331.5259.2
Floating-point processing power10.61 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs224192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed715 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth732.2 GB/s448.0 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 outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

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

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA6.07.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 April 2016 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 16 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 80 Watt

RTX 5000 Max-Q has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 275% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla P100 DGXS and Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla P100 DGXS is a workstation card while Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Tesla P100 DGXS
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