NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA Tesla K80
We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 16GB VRAM A2 and a Professional market GPU: 12GB VRAM Tesla K80 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A2 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 115% (1770MHz vs 824MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)
NVIDIA Tesla K80 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.6GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A2
+10%
4.531 TFLOPS
Tesla K80
4.113 TFLOPS
Blender
A2
+141%
902
Tesla K80
373
Graphics Card
Nov 2021
Release Date
Nov 2014
Quadro
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1440 MHz
Base Clock
562 MHz
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
824 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
200.1GB/s
Bandwidth
240.6GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
-
1280
Shading Units
2496
40
TMUs
208
32
ROPs
48
40
Tensor Cores
-
10
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
1536 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.85 GPixel/s
70.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
171.4 GTexel/s
4.531 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
4.531 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.113 TFLOPS
70.80 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1371 GFLOPS
Board Design
60W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
GK210
-
GPU Variant
GK210-885-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
Unknown
Transistors
7.1 billion
Unknown
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.7
6.6
Shader Model
5.1
