NVIDIA Tesla K20X vs NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM Tesla K20X and 4GB VRAM Quadro K5000 SYNC to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K20X 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (249.6GB/s vs 172.8GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro K5000 SYNC 's Advantages
Lower TDP (122W vs 235W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K20X
+81%
3.935 TFLOPS
Quadro K5000 SYNC
2.169 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Jan 2013
Tesla
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
249.6GB/s
Bandwidth
172.8GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
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2688
Shading Units
1536
224
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
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16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
40.99 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.59 GPixel/s
164.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
90.37 GTexel/s
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3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.169 TFLOPS
1312 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
90.37 GFLOPS
Board Design
235W
TDP
122W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
GK104
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Kepler
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
3.5
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
