NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

  • 669.5x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s vs 256.0 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 month(s) later
  • Around 21% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 824 MHz
  • Around 64% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2496
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 300 Watt
Launch date 27 August 2015 vs 17 Nov 2014
Boost clock speed 1000 MHz vs 824 MHz
Pipelines 4096 vs 2496
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Name NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon R9 Nano
PassMark - G2D Mark 374
PassMark - G3D Mark 5852
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4579

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 GCN 3.0
Code name GK210 Fiji
Launch date 17 Nov 2014 27 August 2015
Place in performance rating 259 261
Design AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP) $649
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 4096
Pixel fill rate 42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s 256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 7100 million 8,900 million
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 8,192 gflops
Stream Processors 4096

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 152 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-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 512 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 4096 bit
Memory clock speed 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore