NVIDIA GRID K520 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K520 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K520
2.289 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
+138%
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
435 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1335 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
42.72 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
20W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GA107S
-
-
-
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
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
