Jetson AGX Xavier vs Tesla K80

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking349not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.50no data
ArchitectureKepler 2.0 (2013−2015)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGK210GV10B
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date17 November 2014 (10 years ago)October 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$899

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 cores2496512
Core clock speed562 MHz854 MHz
Boost clock speed824 MHz1377 MHz
Number of transistors7,100 million9,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate171.444.06
Floating-point processing power4.113 TFLOPS1.41 TFLOPS
ROPs4816
TMUs20832
Tensor Coresno data64

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 x16IGP
Length267 mm100 mm
Width2-slotIGP
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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount12 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1253 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240.6 GB/sno data

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
Vulkan1.1.1261.2
CUDA3.77.2

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 30 Watt

Jetson AGX Xavier has a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K80 and Jetson AGX Xavier. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K80 is a workstation graphics card while Jetson AGX Xavier is a desktop one.


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