NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 295 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 11.12GB/s)
1528 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
+10800%
2.289 TFLOPS
Quadro NVS 295
0.021 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
May 2009
GRID
Generation
Quadro NVS
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
695 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
11.12GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
1
1536
Shading Units
8
128
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.160 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
23W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G98
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
86 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
4.0
