NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs NVIDIA GRID K2

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NVIDIA Tesla K80 NVIDIA GRID K2

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla K80 and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla K80 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock824MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.6GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla K80 +79%

4.113 TFLOPS

GRID K2

2.289 TFLOPS

Tesla K80

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GRID K2

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

May 2013

Tesla

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

562 MHz

Base Clock

-

824 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.6GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2496

Shading Units

1536

208

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.85 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.84 GPixel/s

171.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.36 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.113 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.289 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK210

GPU Name

GK104

GK210-885-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-895-A2

Kepler 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.1 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.175

3.7

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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