NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon E8870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon E8870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla K80

AMD Radeon E8870

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

3570.8x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
3.3x more pipelines: 2496 vs 768
3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5089 vs 3368

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 48 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2496 vs 768
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5089 vs 3368

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8870

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
4x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 300 Watt
4.8x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 708 vs 275

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	708 vs 275

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon E8870

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

275

708

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5089

3368

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon E8870
PassMark - G2D Mark	275	708
PassMark - G3D Mark	5089	3368
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		36.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		874.689
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.11
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		18191
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4620
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		5030
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		18191

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon E8870
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 2.0
Code name	GK210	Saturn
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	29 September 2015
Place in performance rating	350	351
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.113 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2496	768
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	48 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	2,080 million
Floating-point performance		1,536 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12.0 (12_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	96 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5