NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Tesla K80

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective vs 1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 1395 MHz vs 562 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 824 MHz
3.2x more texture fill rate: 556.0 GTexel/s vs 171.4 GTexel/s
4.2x more pipelines: 10496 vs 2496
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 12 GB
3.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1060 vs 280
5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26668 vs 4680

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 Sep 2020 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed	1395 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 824 MHz
Texture fill rate	556.0 GTexel/s vs 171.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines	10496 vs 2496
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1060 vs 280
PassMark - G3D Mark	26668 vs 4680

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

280

1060

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4680

26668

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
PassMark - G2D Mark	280	1060
PassMark - G3D Mark	4680	26668
Geekbench - OpenCL		191142
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		690.619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		7585.258
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		62.614
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		209.424
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2441.384
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3354
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		33398
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3713
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3354
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		5118

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Ampere
Code name	GK210	GA102
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	1 Sep 2020
Place in performance rating	374	46
Launch price (MSRP)		$1499
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1695 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1395 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	8 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)	556.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.113 TFLOPS	35.58 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2496	10496
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s	189.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	556.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	350 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	28300 million
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		35.58 TFLOPS (1:1)
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches	313 mm (12.3 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	750 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x 12-pin
Height		138 mm (5.4 inches)
Width		Triple-slot
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	24 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	936.2 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	384 bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	1219 MHz (19.5 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6X