Quadro 3000M vs GRID K500
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM Quadro 3000M and 4GB VRAM GRID K500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro 3000M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 225W)
GRID K500 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro 3000M
432
GRID K500
+429%
2289
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Jul 2014
Quadro Mobile
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
625 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
5
SM Count
-
240
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
18.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
432.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
36.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
225W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
GK104
N12E-Q1-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.1
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
