Tesla V100 DGXS vs GeForce 6500

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameNV44 A2GV100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)27 March 2018 (6 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 coresno data5120
Core clock speed400 MHz1297 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1530 MHz
Number of transistors75 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rate1.600489.6
Floating-point processing powerno data15.67 TFLOPS
ROPs2128
TMUs4320
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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR2HBM2
Maximum RAM amount128 MB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed266 MHz876 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.512 GB/s897.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.4
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 27 March 2018
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 32 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 12 nm

Tesla V100 DGXS has an age advantage of 12 years, a 25500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 6500 and Tesla V100 DGXS. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 6500 is a desktop card while Tesla V100 DGXS is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 6500
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