NVIDIA Tesla K20c vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c and 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 3500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K20c 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (5GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (208.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (45W vs 225W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Mar 2007
Tesla
Generation
Quadro FX Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-III
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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1300 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
5GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
208.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
2496
Shading Units
-
208
TMUs
24
40
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
1280 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
36.71 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.200 GPixel/s
146.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.524 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
1175 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
45W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
G71
GK110-885-KA-A1
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
0.278 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
196 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
