NVIDIA GRID K520 vs NVIDIA Quadro Plex 1000 Model II
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 and 512MB VRAM Quadro Plex 1000 Model II to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K520 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 33.60GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (225W vs 640W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jul 2013
Release Date
Jul 2008
GRID
Generation
Quadro Plex
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
525 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
33.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
-
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.520 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.28 GTexel/s
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-
-
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
640W
550 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G70
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-
-
Kepler
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
110 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.302 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
333 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
3.0
