Nvidia releases Tesla K80 with 24GB memory – update

Nvidia comes with a new Tesla video card for high performance computing: the Tesla K80. The card has two Kepler GPUs and a total of 24GB of GDDR5 memory can be addressed via the two 384bit interfaces.

There is no official introduction yet, but it should follow soon, according to the message on WccfTech. The Tesla K80 contains a duo of KGK210 GPUs for a total of 4992 cuda cores, 416 tmu’s and 96 rop’s. The 384bit wide memory interfaces address 12GB gddr5 twice.

The core clock speed is 870MHz and the memory is clocked at 5GHz. The bandwidth is 480GB/s and according to Nvidia the performance on double precision calculations is 2.9 teraflops while the single precision performance is supposed to be 8 teraflops. This makes the card twice as fast as the Tesla K40, claims Nvidia. The Tesla cards are used for supercomputers and other high-performance computing applications, where they perform scientific calculations, for example. The price would be $ 7,000 in the US, converted 5,600 euros.

Update, 16.00: Nvidia has already announced the Tesla K80 itself.