Quadro FX 580 vs Quadro K5100M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 512MB VRAM Quadro FX 580 and 8GB VRAM Quadro K5100M 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 100W)
Quadro K5100M 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock771MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 580
72
Quadro K5100M
+3190%
2369
Graphics Card
Apr 2009
Release Date
Jul 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
771 MHz
-
Boost Clock
771 MHz
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/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
24.67 GPixel/s
7.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
98.69 GTexel/s
72.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.369 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
98.69 GFLOPS
Board Design
40W
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK104
G96-875-C1
GPU Variant
N15E-Q5-A2
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
