NVIDIA Tesla K80 vs NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K80 and NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2 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.

NVIDIA Tesla K80

NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K80

517x more texture fill rate: 171.4 GTexel/s vs 331.5 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s vs 331.5 GTexel / s

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 1328 MHz vs 562 MHz
Around 80% higher boost clock speed: 1480 MHz vs 824 MHz
Around 44% higher pipelines: 3584 vs 2496
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 1408 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective

Launch date	5 April 2016 vs 17 Nov 2014
Core clock speed	1328 MHz vs 562 MHz
Boost clock speed	1480 MHz vs 824 MHz
Pipelines	3584 vs 2496
Manufacturing process technology	16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 12 GB
Memory clock speed	1408 MHz vs 1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K80
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2
PassMark - G2D Mark	374
PassMark - G3D Mark	5852
Geekbench - OpenCL		76222

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K80	NVIDIA Tesla P100 SXM2
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Pascal
Code name	GK210	GP100
Launch date	17 Nov 2014	5 April 2016
Place in performance rating	256	255
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	824 MHz	1480 MHz
Core clock speed	562 MHz	1328 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	16 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1,371 GFLOPS (1:3)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.113 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2496	3584
Pixel fill rate	42.85 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.4 GTexel/s	331.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	7100 million	15,300 million
Floating-point performance		10,609 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	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
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12 (11_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.6 GB/s	720.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1253 MHz, 5 Gbps effective	1408 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	HBM2