NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro K500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
+580%
2.218 TFLOPS
Quadro K500M
0.326 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Jun 2012
GRID
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
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1253 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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1536
Shading Units
192
96
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
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48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
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-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
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2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
35W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GK107
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
N14M-Q1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
5.2
CUDA
3.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
