FireStream 9370 vs Tesla K8

Place in performance ranking	430	539
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	4.22	no data
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	GK104	Cypress
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	16 September 2014 (9 years ago)	23 June 2010 (14 years ago)
Current price	$249	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	1600
Core clock speed	693 MHz	825 MHz
Boost clock speed	811 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,540 million	2,154 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	225 Watt
Texture fill rate	103.8	66.00
Floating-point performance	2,491 gflops	2,640.0 gflops

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	241 mm	267 mm
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 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 type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	4600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	147.2 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 Connectors

No outputs

1x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	no data

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	9.57	6.55
Recency	16 September 2014	23 June 2010
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	225 Watt