NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro M6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 12GB VRAM Quadro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Quadro M6000 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1114MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (317.4GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Quadro M6000
+198%
6.844 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Mar 2015
GRID
Generation
Quadro
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
988 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1114 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
317.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
3072
128
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.9 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.9 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.844 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
250W
550 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GM200
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.175
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
5.2
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.4
