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NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c and 16GB VRAM Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1350MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 5GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Tesla K20c
3.524 TFLOPS
Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q +135%
8.294 TFLOPS
OctaneBench
Tesla K20c
55
Quadro RTX 5000 Max Q +112%
117

Graphics Card

Nov 2012
Release Date
May 2019
Tesla
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
600 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

5GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
208.0GB/s
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
2496
Shading Units
3072
208
TMUs
192
40
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1280 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

36.71 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
146.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
259.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.59 TFLOPS
3.524 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.294 TFLOPS
1175 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
259.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W
TDP
80W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GK110
GPU Name
TU104
GK110-885-KA-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
12 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
13.6 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
545 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.5
CUDA
7.5
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
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