NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 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 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 100W)
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
0.072 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
+2980%
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
8
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
-
-
-
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GM204
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
