Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro K3100M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 4GB VRAM Quadro K3100M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 75W)
Quadro K3100M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro K3100M
+1405%
1084
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
64
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.30 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
45.18 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1084 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
45.18 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
75W
200 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK104
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
N15E-Q1-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
