NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 1536MB VRAM Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 171W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
+501%
2.218 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 5600 Mac Edition
0.369 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2007
GRID
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
128
96
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.40 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
368.6 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
171W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
G80
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
90 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.681 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
484 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1 (1.0)
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.0
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
