Tesla K10 vs GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking113not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency8.21no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIGK104
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date22 September 2015 (9 years ago)1 May 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$5,099

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961536
Core clock speed1126 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors10400 Million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rateno data95.36
Floating-point processing powerno data2.289 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data272 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data160.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA+3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 September 2015 1 May 2012
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 225 Watt

GTX 980 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years.

Tesla K10, on the other hand, has 46.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Tesla K10. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Tesla K10 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
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