NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 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 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

1528 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID M6 8Q +9981%

2.218 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

GRID M6 8Q

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Quadro NVS 420

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2009

GRID

Generation

Quadro NVS

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

8

96

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

46.21 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

69.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

69.31 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G98

GM204-995-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

40W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x VHDCI

None

Power Connectors

None

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

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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