NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 3500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 225W)
Score
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Mar 2007
GRID
Generation
Quadro FX Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
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128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.200 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
45W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G71
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
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Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.278 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
3.0
