NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 vs NVIDIA GRID K500
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro FX 380 and 4GB VRAM GRID K500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 's Advantages
Lower TDP (34W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)
1520 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 380
0.035 TFLOPS
GRID K500
+6440%
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2009
Release Date
Jul 2014
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
22.40GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
2
SM Count
-
16
Shading Units
1536
8
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
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-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
3.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
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-
-
35.20 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
34W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96
GPU Name
GK104
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
144 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
