Quadro FX 580 vs Tesla K20m
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20m to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)
Tesla K20m 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (5GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (208.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
2464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Tesla K20m
+4794%
3524
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jan 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
5GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
208.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
2496
16
TMUs
208
8
ROPs
40
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.71 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
146.8 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.524 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1175 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK110
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.5
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
