NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 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, 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.

NVIDIA Tesla K80

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
1572.5x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
Around 50% higher pipelines: 2496 vs 1664
3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
179x more memory clock speed: 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s

Launch date	17 Nov 2014 vs 19 September 2014
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 109 billion / sec
Pipelines	2496 vs 1664
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Around 87% higher core clock speed: 1050 MHz vs 562 MHz
Around 43% higher boost clock speed: 1178 MHz vs 824 MHz
2x lower typical power consumption: 148 Watt vs 300 Watt
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 766 vs 280
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9640 vs 4680

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1050 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1178 MHz vs 824 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	148 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	766 vs 280
PassMark - G3D Mark	9640 vs 4680

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

280

766

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4680

9640

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
PassMark - G2D Mark	280	766
PassMark - G3D Mark	4680	9640
Geekbench - OpenCL		28498
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		105.107
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1225.96
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.737
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		35.714
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		490.688
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11499
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3698
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		369

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GK210	GM204
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	19 September 2014
Place in performance rating	374	371
Launch price (MSRP)		$329
Price now		$407.76
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		28.59
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1178 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1050 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.113 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2496	1664
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	109 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	148 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	5,200 million
CUDA cores		1664
Floating-point performance		3,920 gflops
Maximum GPU temperature		98 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2x 6-pins
Bus support		PCI Express 3.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options		4x
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
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	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	7.0 GB/s
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround