Quadro K500M vs GRID M60 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K500M and 8GB VRAM GRID M60 8Q 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 225W)
GRID M60 8Q 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1856 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K500M
326
GRID M60 8Q
+1380%
4825
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro Mobile
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
557 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
192
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
64
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
128 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
150.8 GTexel/s
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.825 TFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
150.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
225W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GM204
N14M-Q1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
