Tesla K80: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Tesla K80 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 15.19% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla K80 sales 17 November 2014. This is a Kepler 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 240.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 300 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Tesla K80: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking351
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency3.47of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
GPU code nameGK210
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date17 November 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Tesla K80's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla K80's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2496of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed562 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed824 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors7,100 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate171.4of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power4.113 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs48of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs208of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla K80 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 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla K80: 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 amount12 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1253 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth240.6 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla K80. 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 K80, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA3.7

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla K80. 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 K80 15.19

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Tesla K80 5852

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.

Tesla K80 16063

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla K80 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 K80's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Tesla M6 107.37
FirePro W9000 104.87
Quadro K5200 104.28
Tesla K80 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla K80 is FirePro W7100, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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