NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 980 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

973.9x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
2x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 6 GB
179x more memory clock speed: 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s

Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 176 billion / sec
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 6 GB
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 7.0 GB/s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 1075 MHz vs 824 MHz
Around 13% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2496
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 852 vs 275
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13768 vs 5089

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 June 2015 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1075 MHz vs 824 MHz
Pipelines	2816 vs 2496
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 300 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	852 vs 275
PassMark - G3D Mark	13768 vs 5089

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

275

852

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5089

13768

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark	275	852
PassMark - G3D Mark	5089	13768
Geekbench - OpenCL		42988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		145.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1722.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		11.661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		788.464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3338
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1322

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	GK210	GM200
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	2 June 2015
Place in performance rating	350	312
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Price now		$679.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		23.43
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1075 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1000 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	2816
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	176 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	8,000 million
CUDA cores		2816
Floating-point performance		6,060 gflops
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	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	6-pin + 8-pin
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	4.5
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	6 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	336.5 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	384 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