NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (130W vs 204W)
NVIDIA Quadro 6000 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (143.4GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
Quadro 6000
+215%
1.028 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
Dec 2010
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
891 MHz
Memory Clock
747 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
143.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
192
Shading Units
448
16
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.07 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.14 GTexel/s
-
-
-
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1028 GFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
513.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
204W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GF100
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-850-A3
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
