FirePro D500 vs Tesla K20c

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Tesla K20c and FirePro D500, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Tesla K20c
2012
5 GB GDDR5, 225 Watt
8.90

D500 outperforms Tesla K20c by a significant 22% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking483422
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.35no data
Power efficiency2.742.74
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK110Tahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date12 November 2012 (11 years ago)18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,199 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 cores24961536
Core clock speed706 MHz725 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt274 Watt
Texture fill rate146.869.60
Floating-point processing power3.524 TFLOPS2.227 TFLOPS
ROPs4032
TMUs20896

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
Length267 mm279 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount5 GB3 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1300 MHz1270 MHz
Memory bandwidth208.0 GB/s243.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputs6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.5-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 8.90 10.83
Recency 12 November 2012 18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount 5 GB 3 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 274 Watt

Tesla K20c has a 66.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 21.8% lower power consumption.

FirePro D500, on the other hand, has a 21.7% higher aggregate performance score, and an age advantage of 1 year.

The FirePro D500 is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla K20c in performance tests.


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