Tesla K40s vs Radeon R5 235X OEM

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameCaicosGK110B
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date21 December 2013 (10 years ago)22 November 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$7,699

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 cores1602880
Core clock speed875 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speedno data876 MHz
Number of transistors370 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)18 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rate7.000210.2
Floating-point processing power0.28 TFLOPS5.046 TFLOPS
ROPs448
TMUs8240

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
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s288.4 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 DVI, 1x HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 18 Watt 245 Watt

R5 235X OEM has 1261.1% lower power consumption.

Tesla K40s, on the other hand, has a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 235X OEM and Tesla K40s. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 235X OEM is a desktop card while Tesla K40s is a workstation one.


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