Tesla K8 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison

Tesla K8

GeForce RTX 4090

Architecture

Kepler (2012−2018)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GK104

AD102-300-A1

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

811 MHz

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

693 MHz

2235 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,491 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

3,540 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1536

16384

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

103.8

1,290

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

1,008 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

3.0

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.6

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.3