Radeon RX 6900 vs Tesla P100 DGXS

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated21
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data19.65
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGP100Navi 21
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date5 April 2016 (8 years ago)28 October 2020 (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 cores35844608
Core clock speed1328 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1480 MHz2105 MHz
Number of transistors15,300 million23,000 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt255 Watt
Texture fill rate331.5606.2
Floating-point processing power10.61 TFLOPS19.4 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs224288

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed715 MHz16 GB/s
Memory bandwidth732.2 GB/s512.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA6.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 April 2016 28 October 2020
Chip lithography 16 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 255 Watt

RX 6900 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 128.6% more advanced lithography process, and 17.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla P100 DGXS and Radeon RX 6900. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla P100 DGXS is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 6900 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Tesla P100 DGXS
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