Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs Tesla P40

Place in performance ranking	156	179
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	100.00	25.51
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GP102	Vega 10
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	13 September 2016 (7 years ago)	19 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,699	no data
Current price	$131 (0x MSRP)	$671

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla P40 has 292% better value for money than Pro Vega 48.

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 cores	3840	3072
Core clock speed	1303 MHz	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1531 MHz	1300 MHz
Number of transistors	11,800 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	367.4	249.6
Floating-point performance	11,758 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Tesla P40 and Radeon Pro Vega 48 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.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None

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 type	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	7.2 GB/s	1572 MHz
Memory bandwidth	347.1 GB/s	402.4 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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.1.125
CUDA	6.1	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla P40 32.76
+12.2%

Pro Vega 48 29.20

Tesla P40 outperforms Radeon Pro Vega 48 by 12% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Tesla P40 12677
+12.2%

Pro Vega 48 11299

Tesla P40 outperforms Radeon Pro Vega 48 by 12% in Passmark.