Product Compare

NVIDIA Tesla K40d vs AMD Radeon R9 280

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2013 Mar 2014
Generation Tesla Kepler Volcanic Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 745 MHz 827 MHz
Boost Clock 876 MHz 933 MHz
Memory Clock 1502 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 12GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 288.4GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 2880 1792
TMUs 240 112
ROPs 48 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per SMX) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 1536 KB 768 KB
Compute Units 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 52.56 GPixel/s 29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 210.2 GTexel/s 104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 5.046 TFLOPS 3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 1.682 TFLOPS 836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GK110B Tahiti
Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 7.08 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 561 mm² 352 mm²
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Board Design
TDP 245W 200W
Suggested PSU 550 W 550 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.2.175 1.2
CUDA 3.5
Shader Model 6.5 (5.1) 5.1