AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA Tesla K20c videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA Tesla K20c

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 12 November 2012
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20c

4.9x more pipelines: 2496 vs 512

Pipelines	2496 vs 512

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla K20c

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Tesla K20c
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429
Geekbench - OpenCL		15597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		39.423
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1427.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		64.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		179.044

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA Tesla K20c
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK110
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	12 November 2012
Place in performance rating	978	980
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$3,199
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	2496
Core clock speed		706 MHz
Floating-point performance		3,524 gflops
Texture fill rate		146.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		225 Watt
Transistor count		7,080 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		5 GB
Memory bandwidth		208.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		320 Bit
Memory clock speed		5200 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5