NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA RTX A4000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 16GB VRAM RTX A4000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (130W vs 140W)
NVIDIA RTX A4000 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1560MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
5952 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
RTX A4000
+5780%
19.17 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
Apr 2021
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1560 MHz
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
48
192
Shading Units
6144
16
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
149.8 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
19.17 TFLOPS
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.17 TFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GA104
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
GA104-875-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
