NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 4800 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 4800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4800
0.462 TFLOPS
GRID K2
+395%
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
May 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
76.80GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
24
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
128
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
192 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
14.45 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
38.53 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
-
-
-
462.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
57.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GT200B
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.4 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
470 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
1.2.175
1.3
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
