GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs Tesla K80

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking346not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.65no data
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGK210GM206
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date17 November 2014 (9 years ago)26 November 2015 (8 years ago)

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 cores24961024
Core clock speed562 MHz1176 MHz
Boost clock speed824 MHz1201 MHz
Number of transistors7,100 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Wattno data
Texture fill rate171.476.86
Floating-point processing power4.113 TFLOPS2.46 TFLOPS
ROPs4832
TMUs20864

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-pinNone

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 amount12 GB4 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1753 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.6 GB/s112.2 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 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA3.75.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 November 2014 26 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 4 GB

Tesla K80 has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 960 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K80 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K80 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce GTX 960 OEM is a desktop one.


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