NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro 6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 6GB VRAM Quadro 6000 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 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 143.4GB/s)
1088 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro 6000 's Advantages
More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)
Lower TDP (204W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
+122%
2.289 TFLOPS
Quadro 6000
1.028 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Dec 2010
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
747 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
143.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
14
1536
Shading Units
448
128
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
48
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.07 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.14 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1028 GFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
513.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
204W
550 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GF100
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
GF100-850-A3
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
2.0
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
5.1
