NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K40c and ATI FireGL V8600 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K40c

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 8% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 688 MHz
  • 16.2x more texture fill rate: 178.8 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • 9x more pipelines: 2880 vs 320
  • 9.7x better floating-point performance: 4,291 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 12x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 1 GB
  • 3.5x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1736 MHz
  • 5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4495 vs 839
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 October 2013 vs 14 May 2007
Core clock speed 745 MHz vs 688 MHz
Texture fill rate 178.8 GTexel / s vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2880 vs 320
Floating-point performance 4,291 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 12 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4495 vs 839

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

  • Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 159 Watt vs 245 Watt
  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 406 vs 325
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 159 Watt vs 245 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 406 vs 325

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K40c
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
325
406
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4495
839
Name NVIDIA Tesla K40c ATI FireGL V8600
Geekbench - OpenCL 17468
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 61.566
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1779.043
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 103.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 308.261
PassMark - G2D Mark 325 406
PassMark - G3D Mark 4495 839

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla K40c ATI FireGL V8600

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK110B R600
Launch date 8 October 2013 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $7,699 $1,899
Place in performance rating 513 363
Type Workstation Workstation

Technical info

Core clock speed 745 MHz 688 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,291 gflops 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 2880 320
Texture fill rate 178.8 GTexel / s 11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 245 Watt 159 Watt
Transistor count 7,080 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 267 mm 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.4 GB / s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz 1736 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4