Tesla P100 SXM2 vs Tesla K80m
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Architecture | Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015) | Pascal (2016−2021) |
| GPU code name | GK210 | GP100 |
| Market segment | Workstation | Workstation |
| Release date | 17 November 2014 (10 years ago) | 5 April 2016 (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 cores | 2x 2496 | 3584 |
| Core clock speed | 562 MHz | 1328 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 824 MHz | 1480 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 7,100 million | 15,300 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 16 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 2x 182.2 billion/sec | 331.5 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 10.61 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 2x 48 | 96 |
| TMUs | 2x 208 | 224 |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Length | 267 mm | no data |
| Width | 2-slot | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | HBM2 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2x 12 GB | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | 2x 384 Bit | 4096 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 5012 MHz | 704 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 2x 240.6 GB/s | 720.9 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 Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12.0 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| Shader Model | no data | 6.4 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.2.131 |
| CUDA | - | 6.0 |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 17 November 2014 | 5 April 2016 |
| Chip lithography | 28 nm | 16 nm |
Tesla P100 SXM2 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Tesla K80m and Tesla P100 SXM2. We've got no test results to judge.
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