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).

 

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 67658
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 205.048
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3992.429
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 17.999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 215.55
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 256 252
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