GRID K100 vs Tesla K80

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking350not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.47no data
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK210GK107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date17 November 2014 (10 years ago)28 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$63

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 cores2496192
Core clock speed562 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed824 MHzno data
Number of transistors7,100 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt130 Watt
Texture fill rate171.413.60
Floating-point processing power4.113 TFLOPS0.3264 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs20816

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount12 GB256 MB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz891 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.6 GB/s28.51 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA3.73.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 November 2014 28 June 2013
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 256 MB
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 130 Watt

Tesla K80 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GRID K100, on the other hand, has 130.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K80 and GRID K100. We've got no test results to judge.


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