NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon RX 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon RX 5500 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

  • 1055.7x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s vs 162.36 GT/s
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 5500

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 3x more core clock speed: 1670 MHz vs 562 MHz
  • 2.2x more boost clock speed: 1845 MHz vs 824 MHz
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 740 vs 374
  • Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8788 vs 5852
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 Oct 2019 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed 1670 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed 1845 MHz vs 824 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 740 vs 374
PassMark - G3D Mark 8788 vs 5852

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 5500

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
374
740
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5852
8788
Name NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon RX 5500
PassMark - G2D Mark 374 740
PassMark - G3D Mark 5852 8788
Geekbench - OpenCL 44388
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 12069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4813

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon RX 5500

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 RDNA
Code name GK210
Launch date 17 Nov 2014 7 Oct 2019
Place in performance rating 259 254
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 824 MHz 1845 MHz
Core clock speed 562 MHz 1670 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.113 TFLOPS 5.2 TFLOPs
Pipelines 2496
Pixel fill rate 42.85 GPixel/s 59 GP/s
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s 162.36 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 7100 million 6400 million
Compute units 22
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.4 TFLOPs
Stream Processors 1408

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1 x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12 (11_1)
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 240.6 GB/s 224 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 128 bit
Memory clock speed 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR6

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HDMI 4K Support