
Tesla K80 and Quadro RTX A6000 - video card comparison
Tesla K80
Quadro RTX A6000
Architecture
Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GK210
Ampere
Market segment
Workstation
Workstation
Release date
November 2014
October 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
824 MHz
1800 MHz
Core clock speed
562 MHz
1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
7,100 million
28,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2496
10752
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
171.4
625.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
5012 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
240.6 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
4x DisplayPort
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
3.7
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2