NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 vs NVIDIA GRID K100

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 and NVIDIA GRID K100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports, API support.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 61% higher core clock speed: 1370 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 32.2x more texture fill rate: 438.4 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
  • 26.7x more pipelines: 5120 vs 192
  • 43x better floating-point performance: 14,029 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 256 MB
Launch date 21 June 2017 vs 28 June 2013
Core clock speed 1370 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 438.4 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 192
Floating-point performance 14,029 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 256 MB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K100

  • Around 92% lower typical power consumption: 130 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 1% higher memory clock speed: 1782 MHz vs 1758 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz vs 1758 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Tesla V100 SMX2 NVIDIA GRID K100

Essentials

Architecture Volta Kepler
Code name GV100 GK107
Launch date 21 June 2017 28 June 2013
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $63

Technical info

Core clock speed 1370 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,029 gflops 326.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 5120 192
Texture fill rate 438.4 GTexel / s 13.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 130 Watt
Transistor count 21,100 million 1,270 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 900.1 GB / s 28.51 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1758 MHz 1782 MHz
Memory type HBM2 DDR3

Technologies

CUDA

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6