Quadro FX 580 vs GRID K500
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 4GB VRAM GRID K500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Quadro FX 580 's Advantages
Lower TDP (40W vs 225W)
GRID K500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
GRID K500
+3079%
2289
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2014
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
128
8
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
225W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK104
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
