NVIDIA Quadro 400 vs NVIDIA GRID K520
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro 400 and 4GB VRAM GRID K520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro 400 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K520 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 12.32GB/s)
1488 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro 400
0.108 TFLOPS
GRID K520
+2019%
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2011
Release Date
Jul 2013
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
770 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.32GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
108.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT216
GPU Name
GK104
GT216 GL
GPU Variant
-
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.486 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.2
CUDA
3.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
