NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs NVIDIA GRID K280Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 4600 and 4GB VRAM GRID K280Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (134W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K280Q 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4600
0.23 TFLOPS
GRID K280Q
+895%
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Jun 2013
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
128
24
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
96 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
-
-
-
230.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
134W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G80
GPU Name
GK104
G80-850-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.681 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
484 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1 (1.0)
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.0
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
