Tesla K8: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Tesla K8 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.66% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla K8 sales 16 September 2014. This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 241 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 100 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Tesla K8: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking461
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency6.62of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK104
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date16 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Tesla K8's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla K8's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed693 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed811 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors3,540 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate103.8of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power2.491 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs128of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla K8 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length241 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla K8: 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1250 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla K8. 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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Tesla K8, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla K8. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla K8 9.66

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Tesla K8 38

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla K8 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Tesla K8's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


GRID M60-8Q 104.35
T400 4 GB 101.55
FirePro S7150 101.24
Tesla K8 100
P104-100 99.59
GRID M60-1Q 99.28
Tesla M2090 98.45

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla K8 is FirePro S7150, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Tesla K8:

FirePro W8000 111.39
FirePro D300 105.49
FirePro S7150 101.24
Tesla K8 100

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