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In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA “Ampere” GPU Accelerators

This article provides details on the NVIDIA A-series GPUs (codenamed “Ampere”). “Ampere” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Volta” and “Turing” architectures. Ampere A100 GPUs began shipping in May 2020 (with other variants shipping by end of 2020). Note that not … Continue reading

Check for memory errors on NVIDIA GPUs

Professional NVIDIA GPUs (the Tesla and Quadro products) are equipped with error-correcting code (ECC) memory, which allows the system to detect when memory errors occur. Smaller “single-bit” errors are transparently corrected. Larger “double-bit” memory errors will cause applications to crash, … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Quadro “Turing” GPU Accelerators

This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Quadro RTX “Turing” GPUs. NVIDIA “Turing” GPUs bring an evolved core architecture and add dedicated ray tracing units to the previous-generation “Volta” architecture. Turing GPUs began shipping in late 2018. Important features … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla “Volta” GPU Accelerators

This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Tesla V-series GPU accelerators (codenamed “Volta”). “Volta” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Pascal” architecture. Volta GPUs began shipping in September 2017 and were updated to 32GB of memory in March 2018; Tesla … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla “Pascal” GPU Accelerators

This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Tesla P-series GPU accelerators (codenamed “Pascal”). “Pascal” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Kepler”, and “Maxwell” architectures. Pascal GPUs were announced at GTC 2016 and began shipping in September 2016. Note: these have … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla “Maxwell” GPU Accelerators

This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Tesla M-series GPU accelerators (codenamed “Maxwell”). “Maxwell” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Kepler” architecture, although they do not necessarily replace all “Kepler” models. Important changes available in the “Maxwell” GPU architecture include: … Continue reading

Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla/Quadro and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs

This resource was prepared by Microway from data provided by NVIDIA and trusted media sources. All NVIDIA GPUs support general purpose computation (GPGPU), but not all GPUs offer the same performance or support the same features. The consumer line of … Continue reading

In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla Kepler GPU Accelerators

This article provides in-depth details of the NVIDIA Tesla K-series GPU accelerators (codenamed “Kepler”). “Kepler” GPUs improve upon the previous-generation “Fermi” architecture. For more information on other Tesla GPU architectures, please refer to: In-Depth Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla “Maxwell” GPU … Continue reading