NVIDIA Tesla K8 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

VS

NVIDIA Tesla K8

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla K8 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock811MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla K8 +11222%

2.491 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

Tesla K8

VS

Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2009

Tesla

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

693 MHz

Base Clock

-

811 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

1536

Shading Units

8

128

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

103.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

2.491 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

103.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G98

-

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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