Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient vs Tesla K40st

Primary details

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGK110BRaven
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date22 November 2013 (10 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,699 no data
Current priceno data$786

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 cores2880384
Core clock speed575 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1011 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)245 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate138.024.26
Floating-point performance4,291 gflopsno data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Tesla K40st and Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient 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.

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount12 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed6008 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/sno 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.5no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 November 2013 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 245 Watt 15 Watt

We couldn't decide between Tesla K40st and Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K40st is a workstation card while Radeon Vega 6 Mobile Efficient is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Tesla K40st
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