NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q 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 M6 8Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 102.4GB/s)
1296 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 189W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
+256%
2.218 TFLOPS
Quadro FX 5800
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Nov 2008
GRID
Generation
Quadro FX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
30
1536
Shading Units
240
96
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.52 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
189W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GT200B
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.3
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
