Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB vs Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1015not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameKaveriGV100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)27 March 2018 (6 years ago)
Current priceno data$7229

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2565120
Core clock speed514 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed626 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data441.6
Floating-point performanceno data14,131 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataHBM2
Maximum RAM amountno data32 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1752 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data897.0 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkanno data1.2.131
CUDAno data7.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 27 March 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Kaveri) is a notebook card while Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB is a workstation one.


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