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GeForce GTX 970 and Tesla K10 - video card comparison


GeForce GTX 970

Tesla K10


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Kepler (2012−2018)

GPU code name
GM204
GK104

Market segment
Desktop
Workstation

Release date
September 2014
May 2012

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1178 MHz
-

Core clock speed
1050 MHz
745 MHz

CUDA cores
1664
-

Floating-point performance
3,920 gflops
2x 2,289 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,200 million
3,540 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1664
1536

Power consumption (TDP)
145 Watt
225 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
98 °C
-

Texture fill rate
109 billion/sec
95.36

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
160.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs

Multi monitor support
4 displays
-

HDMI
+
-

HDCP
+
-

Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-

G-SYNC support
+
-

Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)

CUDA
+
3.0

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.4
4.6

Shader Model
6.4
5.1

Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-