NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon R9 380X 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Tesla K80

AMD Radeon R9 380X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

1380x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 124.2 GTexel / s
Around 22% higher pipelines: 2496 vs 2048
3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz

Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 124.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2496 vs 2048
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 970 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 380X

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 970 MHz vs 824 MHz
Around 58% lower typical power consumption: 190 Watt vs 300 Watt
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 675 vs 275
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6177 vs 5089

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 November 2015 vs 17 Nov 2014
Boost clock speed	970 MHz vs 824 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	190 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	675 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	6177 vs 5089

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 380X

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

275

675

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5089

6177

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon R9 380X
PassMark - G2D Mark	275	675
PassMark - G3D Mark	5089	6177
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		9685
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3361
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		3053

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon R9 380X
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GK210	Antigua
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	19 November 2015
Place in performance rating	350	309
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$229
Price now		$528.44
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		15.61
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	970 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	124.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	190 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	5,000 million
Compute units		32
Floating-point performance		3,973 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
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	Full Height / Full Length
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	221 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 6-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	182.4 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	970 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore