NVIDIA Tesla K8 vs NVIDIA A10G
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 and 12GB VRAM A10G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K8 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
NVIDIA A10G 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 111% (1710MHz vs 811MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (600.2GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
7680 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K8
2.491 TFLOPS
A10G
+1165%
31.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Apr 2021
Tesla
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
693 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
811 MHz
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
600.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
72
1536
Shading Units
9216
128
TMUs
288
32
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
72
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
25.95 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
103.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
492.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
31.52 TFLOPS
2.491 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
31.52 TFLOPS
103.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
985.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA102
-
GPU Variant
GA102-890-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
628 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
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
