NVIDIA Quadro K420 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Quadro K420 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 K420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (41W vs 100W)
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
1344 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro K420
0.336 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
+560%
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2014
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
192
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.504 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
14.02 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
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-
-
336.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
14.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
41W
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GM204
GK107-301-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
