NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
+146%
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
435 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
1536
Shading Units
2048
96
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
20W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA107S
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
