NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

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NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420 NVIDIA Quadro K500M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 256MB VRAM Quadro NVS 420 and 1024MB VRAM Quadro K500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Quadro K500M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 40W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Quadro NVS 420

0.022 TFLOPS

Quadro K500M +1381%

0.326 TFLOPS

Quadro NVS 420

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Quadro K500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Jun 2012

Quadro NVS

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

11.20GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

1

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

8

Shading Units

192

4

TMUs

16

4

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

16 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.400 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

22.40 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

326.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

13.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

GK107

-

GPU Variant

N14M-Q1

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

35W

200 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x VHDCI

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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