FirePro S10000 Passive vs Tesla K20c

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking490not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.37no data
Power efficiency2.73no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK110Tahiti
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date12 November 2012 (12 years ago)12 November 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,199 $3,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores24963584
Core clock speed706 MHz825 MHz
Boost clock speedno data950 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt750 Watt
Texture fill rate146.8106.4
Floating-point processing power3.524 TFLOPS3.405 TFLOPS
ROPs4032
TMUs208112

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).

Bus supportno dataPCIe 3.0
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm305 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorno datafull height / full length
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 8-pin

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 amount5 GB6 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1300 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth208.0 GB/s480 GB/s

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 outputs1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Dual-link DVI support-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.5-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 5 GB 6 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 750 Watt

Tesla K20c has 233.3% lower power consumption.

S10000 Passive, on the other hand, has a 20% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K20c and FirePro S10000 Passive. We've got no test results to judge.


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