NVIDIA Tesla P40 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

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NVIDIA Tesla P40 AMD Radeon Instinct MI250

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM Tesla P40 and 128GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla P40 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon Instinct MI250 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1700MHz vs 1531MHz)

More VRAM (128GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 347.1GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla P40

11.76 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI250 +284%

45.26 TFLOPS

Tesla P40

VS

Radeon Instinct MI250

Graphics Card

Sep 2016

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla Pascal

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1303 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1531 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1808 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

128GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

8192bit

347.1GB/s

Bandwidth

3277GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

208

3840

Shading Units

13312

240

TMUs

832

96

ROPs

0

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

147.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

367.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

183.7 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

362.1 TFLOPS

11.76 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

45.26 TFLOPS

367.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

45.26 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP102

GPU Name

Aldebaran

-

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

Pascal

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

6 nm

11.8 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

471 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

250W

TDP

500W

600 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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