NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 3500M and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
May 2013
Quadro FX Mobile
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
MXM-III
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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600 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
-
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
13.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
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
G71
GPU Name
GK104
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GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Curie
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.278 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.175
-
CUDA
3.0
3.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
