NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA Quadro CX
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 1536MB VRAM Quadro CX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K1 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Lower TDP (130W vs 150W)
NVIDIA Quadro CX 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
Quadro CX
+41%
0.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
Nov 2008
GRID
Generation
Quadro CX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
891 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1536MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
24
192
Shading Units
192
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
192 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.45 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.53 GTexel/s
-
-
-
326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
462.3 GFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GT200B
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.3
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
