NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 768MB VRAM Quadro FX 4600 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q 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 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)
1440 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 134W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro FX 4600
0.23 TFLOPS
GRID M6 8Q
+864%
2.218 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2007
Release Date
Aug 2015
Quadro FX
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
67.20GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
96
24
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
96 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
24.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
-
-
-
230.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
134W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G80
GPU Name
GM204
G80-850-A2
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.681 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
484 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1 (1.0)
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.0
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
