NVIDIA GRID K2 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K2 and 4GB VRAM Quadro FX 5800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 's Advantages
Lower TDP (189W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K2
+268%
2.289 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 5800
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2013
Release Date
Nov 2008
GRID
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
1536
Shading Units
240
128
TMUs
80
32
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.52 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
189W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
GT200B
GK104-895-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
294 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
1.2.175
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.3
6.5 (5.1)
Shader Model
4.0
