RTX A500 Embedded vs GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Embedded Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)
GRID M6 8Q Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
+146%
5468
GRID M6 8Q
2218
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Aug 2015
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
1253 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
64
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
100W
-
Suggested PSU
300 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
