NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1168 MHz vs 562 MHz
  • Around 56% higher boost clock speed: 1284 MHz vs 824 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • 5.6x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
  • 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 676 vs 280
  • Around 64% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 7657 vs 4680
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 15 October 2018 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed 1168 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed 1284 MHz vs 824 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 676 vs 280
PassMark - G3D Mark 7657 vs 4680

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
280
676
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4680
7657
Name NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
PassMark - G2D Mark 280 676
PassMark - G3D Mark 4680 7657
Geekbench - OpenCL 34598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 122.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1890.261
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 117.008
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 625.621
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9258
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3709
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9258
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3709
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 849

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 GCN 4.0
Code name GK210 Polaris 20
Launch date 17 Nov 2014 15 October 2018
Place in performance rating 374 358
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 824 MHz 1284 MHz
Core clock speed 562 MHz 1168 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 14 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.113 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2496
Pixel fill rate 42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 7100 million 5,700 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 1x 8-pin

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
Memory bandwidth 240.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective 7000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5