Tesla T4: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Tesla T4 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 27.84% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla T4 sales 13 September 2018. This is a Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 168 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 70 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Tesla T4: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking196
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency27.54of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU104
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date13 September 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Tesla T4's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla T4's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2560of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed585 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed1590 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors13,600 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology12 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)70 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate254.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power8.141 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs64of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs160of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores320of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores40of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla T4 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla T4: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla T4. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Tesla T4, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.5
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131
CUDA7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla T4. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 T4 27.84

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

Tesla T4 10744

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Tesla T4 61276

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

Tesla T4 70627

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla T4 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Tesla T4's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


L4 107.22
RTX A1000 102.95
Tesla T4 100
Tesla M40 97.41

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla T4 is Radeon Pro SSG, which is faster by 2% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

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