Nvidia Tesla K20 with GK110 in the trade – costs over SEK 30,000

Anyone who wants to get over the famous circuit GK110, also known as full-fledged Kepler, can now buy a copy in the form of Nvidia Tesla K20 from Swedish dealers. It is thus not a traditional graphics card but a calculation card for servers and workstations that must be able to deliver over a trillion floating point operations per second.

Specifications: Nvidia Tesla K20 (GK110)

The Nvidia Tesla K20 is based on the GK110 with 2,496 CUDA cores, 320-bit memory bus and 5 GB of GDDR5 memory. The circuit actually contains 2,880 computing devices, but Nvidia has disabled a cluster (SMX), probably for manufacturing reasons. At the same time, the clock frequencies remain at relatively low 706 MHz GPU and 2.6 GHz GDDR5.

The plug-in card is covered by a black radiator with a fan at the rear edge and is similar to the Geforce GTX 680 in appearance, but no video outputs are visible. On the other hand, two 6-pin PCI Express connections and a TDP value of approximately 225 W. The promise is three times higher performance per watt than the Fermi-based predecessors.

The new Nvidia Tesla K20 is manufactured just like the other models in the Tesla and Quadro series by PNY and is available for purchase at well-stocked computer dealers for around SEK 30,000 including VAT. Despite the sum, it is not possible to play Crysis.