AMD Radeon PRO WX 3100 vs NVIDIA Tesla K8

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Combined performance score

Tesla K8
9.51
+47%

Tesla K8 outperforms Radeon PRO WX 3100 by 47% in our combined benchmark results.

General info

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

Place in performance ranking428535
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money3.844.09
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code nameGK104Polaris 12
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date16 September 2014 (9 years old)21 March 2017 (7 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199
Current price$249 $242 (1.2x MSRP)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

PRO WX 3100 has 7% better value for money than Tesla K8.

Technical specs

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 cores1536512
Core clock speed693 MHzno data
Boost clock speed811 MHz1219 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million2,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate103.839.01
Floating-point performance2,491 gflops1,248 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on Tesla K8 and Radeon PRO WX 3100 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

Memory

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 amount8 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Video outputs and ports

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 DisplayPort, 2x mini-DisplayPort

API support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0no data

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD18−21
+28.6%
14
−28.6%

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 9.51 6.47
Recency 16 September 2014 21 March 2017
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 65 Watt

The Tesla K8 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon PRO WX 3100 in performance tests.

Be aware that Tesla K8 is a workstation card while Radeon PRO WX 3100 is a mobile workstation one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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