Tesla K20m: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 11.45% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

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Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla K20m sales 5 January 2013 at a recommended price of $3,199 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 5 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 208.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Tesla K20m: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking382
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money0.25
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK110
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date5 January 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$3,199
Current price$5781 (1.8x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

Tesla K20m's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla K20m's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2496of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed706 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors7,080 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)225 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate146.8of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance3,524 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla K20m and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla K20m: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount5 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width320 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed5200 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth208.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla K20m. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Tesla K20m, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA3.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla K20m. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla K20m 11.45

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla K20m is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative performance

Overall Tesla K20m performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


FirePro S7000 102.01
Tesla K40c 101.4
Tesla K20m 100
Quadro K4200 97.55

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla K20m is FirePro S7000, which is faster by 2% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to Tesla K20m:

FirePro S9050 110.57
FirePro S7000 102.01
Tesla K20m 100
FirePro D500 90.31

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with Tesla K20m according to our statistics.

User Ratings

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