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NVIDIA Tesla T4

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is a workstation graphics card released on September 12, 2018, built on the Turing architecture. It has a boost clock of 1.59 GHz. It scores 9,912 in the PassMark G3D benchmark.

TuringWorkstation

5/10 key specs recorded · 29 facts

Depth: 17 recorded fields, 9 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified November 2, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

40 SMs

Memory

n/a

GDDR6

Boost clock

1.59 GHz

Board power

n/a

Performance

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 scores 9,912 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #306), measured across 101 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 553.

PassMark G3D Mark

9,912

Rank #306
Faster than 89% of 2,658 GPUs
101 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 139 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 82.4% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 65 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 82.8% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 49 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 70.3% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 37 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 72.2% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 3,112 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 74.8% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA Tesla T4 averages DirectX 9 139 fps, DirectX 10 65 fps, DirectX 11 49 fps, DirectX 12 37 fps and GPU Compute 3,112 ops/s, across 101 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2020-06-03

Samples 101

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Graphics processor

Architecture Turing

Codename Not recorded

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is based on the Turing architecture.

Shader configuration

Shading units Not recorded

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors 40

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) Not recorded

Render output units (ROPs) Not recorded

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 40 streaming multiprocessors.

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA Tesla T4.

Clock speeds

Base clock Not recorded

Boost clock 1.59 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 boosts to 1.59 GHz.

Memory

Size Not recorded

Type GDDR6

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

Market

Launched September 12, 2018

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Data Center

Series Tesla

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 was released on September 12, 2018.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 9,912

PassMark G2D 553

Rank #306

Samples 101

Media engine

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and VP9. It does not support hardware encode for AV1 and decode for AV1.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 7th Generation Encoder engines: 1NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 4th Generation Decoder engines: 2NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA Tesla T4
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: Yes
AV1	Not supported	Not supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA Tesla T4: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (7th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (4th Generation, decoder engines: 2).

Feex fleet

1 Feex machine reports the NVIDIA Tesla T4 as its graphics hardware.

1 Feex machine with this GPU

The count covers machines that have reported hardware to Feex, counted once each; excluded and test machines are not counted, and no machine identity is published.

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the NVIDIA Tesla T4?

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 scores 9,912 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #306. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 37 fps.