NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K20c and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M 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: 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K20c

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 33% higher core clock speed: 706 MHz vs 530 MHz
  • 69.2x more texture fill rate: 146.8 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
  • 312x more pipelines: 2496 vs 8
  • 169.4x better floating-point performance: 3,524 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 20x more maximum memory size: 5 GB vs 256 MB
  • 3.7x more memory clock speed: 5200 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Launch date 12 November 2012 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed 706 MHz vs 530 MHz
Texture fill rate 146.8 GTexel / s vs 2.12 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2496 vs 8
Floating-point performance 3,524 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 5 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5200 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

  • 22.5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 225 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 10 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K20c
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Name NVIDIA Tesla K20c NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M
Geekbench - OpenCL 15597
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.423
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1427.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.128
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.383
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 179.044
PassMark - G3D Mark 70
PassMark - G2D Mark 168

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K20c NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK110 G98
Launch date 12 November 2012 15 August 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $3,199
Place in performance rating 1005 1007
Type Workstation Mobile workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 706 MHz 530 MHz
Floating-point performance 3,524 gflops 20.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 2496 8
Texture fill rate 146.8 GTexel / s 2.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 10 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 210 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-I
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 5 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 208.0 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 320 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 5200 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory 0