Tesla K10 vs FirePro S9050

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking391not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.93no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameTahitiGK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date7 August 2014 (10 years ago)1 May 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$5,099

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17921536
Core clock speed900 MHz745 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate100.895.36
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs112128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length254 mm272 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth264 GB/s160.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 August 2014 1 May 2012
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB

FirePro S9050 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9050 and Tesla K10. We've got no test results to judge.


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