NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 3500M and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q 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 100W)
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
64
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-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
-
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
13.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
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FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
TDP
100W
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Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G71
GPU Name
GM204
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GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Curie
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.278 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
196 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
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CUDA
5.2
3.0
Shader Model
6.4
