NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 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).

NVIDIA Tesla K80

AMD Radeon RX Vega

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

557.9x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 307.2 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB

Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 307.2 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
Around 46% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 824 MHz
Around 64% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 2496
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 882 vs 374
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12297 vs 5852

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2017 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 824 MHz
Pipelines	4096 vs 2496
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	882 vs 374
PassMark - G3D Mark	12297 vs 5852

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

374

882

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5852

12297

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon RX Vega
PassMark - G2D Mark	374	882
PassMark - G3D Mark	5852	12297
Geekbench - OpenCL		68601
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		205.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		3986.188
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		17.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		215.468
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1291.445
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2391
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		8455
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2094
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2391
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		8455

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	AMD Radeon RX Vega
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.3
Code name	GK210	Greenland
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	1 April 2017
Place in performance rating	256	251
Launch price (MSRP)		$599.99
Price now		$409.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		38.94
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1000 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	4096
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	307.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million
Floating-point performance		9,830 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 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	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	512 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	HBM2