Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs Tesla V100 PCIe

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureVolta (2017−2020)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGV100Raven
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date21 June 2017 (7 years ago)23 April 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores5120512
Core clock speed1246 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz1100 MHz
Number of transistors21,100 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate441.635.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.126 TFLOPS
ROPs1288
TMUs32032

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount16 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width4096 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1758 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth900.1 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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12.012 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA7.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2017 23 April 2018
Chip lithography 12 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 35 Watt

Tesla V100 PCIe has a 16.7% more advanced lithography process.

Vega 8 Efficient, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 months, and 614.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla V100 PCIe and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla V100 PCIe is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe
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AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
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