Tesla K80m vs Quadro K1200

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking521not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.50no data
Power efficiency11.73no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameGM107GK210
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date28 January 2015 (9 years ago)17 November 2014 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$321.97 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores5122x 2496
Core clock speed1058 MHz562 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz824 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million7,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate35.972x 182.2 billion/sec
Floating-point processing power1.151 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162x 48
TMUs322x 208

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length160 mm267 mm
Width1" (2.5 cm)2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 type128 BitGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2x 12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz5012 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 80 GB/s2x 240.6 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
Number of simultaneous displays4no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212.0 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 January 2015 17 November 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 300 Watt

Quadro K1200 has an age advantage of 2 months, and 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K1200 and Tesla K80m. We've got no test results to judge.


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