NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (5GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (208.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2464 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K20c
+4794%
3.524 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 580
0.072 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Apr 2009
Tesla
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
5GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
320bit
Memory Bus
128bit
208.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
4
2496
Shading Units
32
208
TMUs
16
40
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1280 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
36.71 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
146.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.524 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
72.00 GFLOPS
1175 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
40W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
G96C
GK110-885-KA-A1
GPU Variant
G96-875-C1
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
0.314 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
121 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
