Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Tesla V100 SMX2

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated216
Place by popularitynot in top-10084
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.29
Power efficiencyno data16.04
ArchitectureVolta (2017−2020)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGV100Navi 24
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date21 June 2017 (7 years ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores51201024
Core clock speed1370 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2815 MHz
Number of transistors21,100 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt107 Watt
Texture fill rate438.4180.2
Floating-point processing powerno data5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs12832
TMUs32064
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 x4
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1758 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth900.1 GB/s143.9 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA7.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2017 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 107 Watt

Tesla V100 SMX2 has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RX 6500 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 133.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla V100 SMX2 and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla V100 SMX2 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2
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AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT
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