RTX A500 Embedded vs Tesla K8
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Embedded Advantages
Released 7 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 65% (1335MHz vs 811MHz)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)
Tesla K8 Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
+119%
5468
Tesla K8
2491
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Sep 2014
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
693 MHz
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
811 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.95 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
103.8 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.491 TFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
100W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GK104
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
