Tesla K20s: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started Tesla K20s sales 18 February 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 1.3 GHz are supplied, and together with 320 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 208.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Tesla K20s: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK110 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 February 2013 (12 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $3,199 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
Tesla K20s's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla K20s's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2496 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 575 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 7,080 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 225 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 119.6 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.87 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 40 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 208 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 208 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1280 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla K20s 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Tesla K20s: 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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 5 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 320 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1300 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 208.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla K20s. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by Tesla K20s, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 3.5 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla K20s is FireStream 9370.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Tesla K20s according to our statistics.
