Radeon Vega 8 Embedded vs Tesla K10

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Raven
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (12 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,099 no data

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 cores1536512
Core clock speed745 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1101 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate95.3635.23
Floating-point processing power2.289 gflops1.127 gflops
ROPs328
TMUs12832

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length272 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sno data

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 19 April 2018
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 35 Watt

Vega 8 Embedded has an age advantage of 5 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 542.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K10 and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tesla K10 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Vega 8 Embedded is a desktop one.


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