RTX A500 Embedded vs GRID K1
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 4GB VRAM GRID K1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Embedded Advantages
Released 9 years late
Boost Clock1335MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
1856 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
+1577%
5468
GRID K1
326
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Mar 2013
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
-
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
891 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
28.51GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
192
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.400 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
13.60 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
326.4 GFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
13.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
130W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GK107
-
GPU Variant
GK107-450-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
