NVIDIA P100 PCIe 16GB vs NVIDIA Tesla P4 8GB

The P100 delivers 69% more FP32 throughput than the Tesla P4 (9.3 vs 5.5 TFLOPS dense). The P100 also carries 8 GB more memory (16 GB vs 8 GB).

P100: Pascal, 2016 Tesla P4: Pascal, 2016
FP32 dense lead
+69%
P100: 9.3 vs 5.5 TFLOPS
VRAM
16 vs 8 GB
8 GB more for the P100
Bandwidth
732 GB/s vs 192 GB/s
P100 moves data faster
TDP
250 W vs 75 W
Tesla P4 draws 175 W less

Specifications

P100
Tesla P4
Architecture
PascalPascal
Launch Year
20162016
Form Factor
PCIePCIe
VRAM
16 GB8 GB
Memory Bandwidth
732 GB/s192 GB/s
TDP
250 W75 W
Process Node
16nm

Performance (TFLOPS)

P100
Tesla P4
FP64
4.7 TFlops
FP32
9.3 TFlops 5.5 TFlops
FP16
18.7 TFlops
INT8
22.0 TFlops

FLOPS by Precision

What actually differs

Both GPUs launched in 2016: the P100 on Pascal and the Tesla P4 on Pascal.

Dense throughput for the P100 against the Tesla P4: FP32 9.3 vs 5.5 TFLOPS. Sparse figures, where the vendor publishes them, appear under each dense number in the performance table.

Memory is 16 GB against 8 GB, fed at 732 GB/s versus 192 GB/s. More memory per GPU means larger models fit before you have to shard across cards, which often matters more than raw TFLOPS for inference.

Power budgets are 250 W for the P100 and 75 W for the Tesla P4. At FP32 that works out to 0.04 against 0.07 TFLOPS per watt.

For LLM training and inference, weight the FP8 and FP16 rows and memory capacity most heavily. For scientific and HPC workloads, the FP64 row is the one to read.

Frequently asked questions

Is the P100 faster than the Tesla P4?

At FP32 precision the P100 reaches 9.3 TFLOPS dense against 5.5 TFLOPS for the Tesla P4. The performance table on this page lists every published precision for both GPUs.

Which has more memory, the P100 or the Tesla P4?

The P100 carries 16 GB of VRAM versus 8 GB for the Tesla P4. Memory bandwidth is 732 GB/s for the P100 and 192 GB/s for the Tesla P4.

How much power do the P100 and the Tesla P4 draw?

The P100 is rated at 250 W TDP and the Tesla P4 at 75 W. On FP32 throughput per watt, the Tesla P4 is the more efficient part.

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