Tesla K8 and Quadro 6000 - video card comparison
Tesla K8
Quadro 6000
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
GK104
GF100
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
September 2014
December 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
811 MHz
-
Core clock speed
693 MHz
574 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,491 gflops
1,027.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
3,540 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
448
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
204 Watt
Texture fill rate
103.8
32.14
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
2988 MHz
Memory bandwidth
160.0 GB/s
143.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
3.0
2.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A