NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon R9 280X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Tesla K80

AMD Radeon R9 280X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
1339.1x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
Around 22% higher pipelines: 2496 vs 2048
4x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 3 GB

Launch date	17 Nov 2014 vs 8 October 2013
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 128.0 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2496 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 3 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 280X

Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 824 MHz
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 675 vs 280
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6138 vs 4680

Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz vs 824 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	675 vs 280
PassMark - G3D Mark	6138 vs 4680

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 280X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

280

675

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4680

6138

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon R9 280X
PassMark - G2D Mark	280	675
PassMark - G3D Mark	4680	6138
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		89.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1434.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		7.656
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		87.459
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		493.57
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9603
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3700
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon R9 280X
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK210	Tahiti
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	8 October 2013
Place in performance rating	374	372
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$299
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	562 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	2048
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	4,313 million
Floating-point performance		4,096 gflops
Stream Processors		2048
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	288 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)