NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs NVIDIA Quadro CX
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla K40c and 1536MB VRAM Quadro CX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K40c 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock876MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
2688 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro CX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 245W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K40c
+992%
5.046 TFLOPS
Quadro CX
0.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Nov 2008
Tesla
Generation
Quadro CX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
745 MHz
Base Clock
-
876 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
2880
Shading Units
192
240
TMUs
64
48
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1536 KB
L2 Cache
192 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
52.56 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.45 GPixel/s
210.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.53 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.046 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
462.3 GFLOPS
1.682 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
245W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK180
GPU Name
GT200B
GK180-890-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
