NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K40c and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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.

NVIDIA Tesla K40c

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K40c

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 49% higher core clock speed: 745 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 325 vs 308
56.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4495 vs 79

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	745 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	325 vs 308
PassMark - G3D Mark	4495 vs 79

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

6.1x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 245 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 245 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K40c
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

325

308

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4495

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K40c	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
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	308
PassMark - G3D Mark	4495	79

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K40c	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Tesla
Code name	GK110B	C78
Launch date	8 October 2013	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$7,699
Place in performance rating	530	533
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,291 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	2880
Texture fill rate	178.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	245 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	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
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5