NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro 400
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
+2019%
2.289 TFLOPS
Quadro 400
0.108 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Apr 2011
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
770 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
12.32GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
1536
Shading Units
48
128
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
108.0 GFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
32W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT216
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
GT216 GL
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.486 billion
294 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
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.2
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
4.1
