Tegra K1 GPU: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Tegra K1 GPU sales 15 October 2014. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Kepler 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 8 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Tegra K1 GPU: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015) | |
| GPU code name | GK20A | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 15 October 2014 (9 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Tegra K1 GPU's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tegra K1 GPU's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 756 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 951 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 8 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 7.608 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3652 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tegra K1 GPU and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | IGP | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Tegra K1 GPU: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Tegra K1 GPU. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Tegra K1 GPU, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | ES 3.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | 1.1 | |
| CUDA | 3.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tegra K1 GPU is Radeon HD 5550.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Tegra K1 GPU according to our statistics.
