NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA Quadro 400
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.51GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)
144 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
+201%
0.326 TFLOPS
Quadro 400
0.108 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
Apr 2011
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
891 MHz
Memory Clock
770 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
12.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
192
Shading Units
48
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
108.0 GFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
130W
TDP
32W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GT216
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
GT216 GL
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.2
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
