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 10 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot 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.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking	184
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	19.00
Architecture	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	TU104
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	13 September 2018 (5 years ago)
Current price	$782	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

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 cores	2560	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	585 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1590 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	13,600 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	254.4	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Width	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

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 type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	10000 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	320.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	6.5
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131
CUDA	7.5

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 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 T4 28.16

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 T4 10908

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.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

Tesla T4 61276

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

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.