NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 761.8x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
  • Around 56% higher pipelines: 2496 vs 2x 800
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5852 vs 1132
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 Nov 2014 vs 7 November 2008
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s vs 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Pipelines 2496 vs 2x 800
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 2x 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5852 vs 1132

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 562 MHz
  • Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
  • Around 59% higher memory clock speed: 1990 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
  • Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 542 vs 374
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 562 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed 1990 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 542 vs 374

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
374
542
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5852
1132
Name NVIDIA Tesla K80 ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2
PassMark - G2D Mark 374 542
PassMark - G3D Mark 5852 1132

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K80 ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GK210 R700
Launch date 17 Nov 2014 7 November 2008
Place in performance rating 248 244
Launch price (MSRP) $420
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 824 MHz
Core clock speed 562 MHz 625 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 4.113 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2496 2x 800
Pixel fill rate 42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 171.4 GTexel/s 2x 25 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 7100 million 956 million
Floating-point performance 2x 1,000.0 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 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) 10.1
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 240.6 GB/s 2x 63.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 bit 2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective 1990 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3