Quadro K500M vs GRID K1
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K500M and 4GB VRAM GRID K1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro K500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 130W)
GRID K1 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K500M
326
GRID K1
326
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Mar 2013
Quadro Mobile
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
192
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
130W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GK107
N14M-Q1
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
Kepler
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.1
3.0
CUDA
3.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
