NVIDIA Quadro 500M vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 225W)
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (5GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (208.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
2400 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro 500M
0.269 TFLOPS
Tesla K20c
+1210%
3.524 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Nov 2012
Quadro Mobile
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
5GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
208.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
2
SM Count
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96
Shading Units
2496
16
TMUs
208
4
ROPs
40
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-
-
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64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1280 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
36.71 GPixel/s
11.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
146.8 GTexel/s
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-
268.8 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.524 TFLOPS
22.40 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1175 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
225W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
GK110
N12M-Q3
GPU Variant
GK110-885-KA-A1
Fermi
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
7.08 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
561 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
2.1
CUDA
3.5
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
