NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1537MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Mobile
+175%
6.296 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
832 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
2048
128
TMUs
64
32
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
30W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA107S
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2.175
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
6.8
