NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1537MHz
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (30W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Mobile
+175%
6.296 TFLOPS
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
May 2013
Ampere-MW
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
832 MHz
Base Clock
-
1537 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
128
32
ROPs
32
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.18 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
98.37 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
6.296 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.296 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
98.37 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
225W
-
Suggested PSU
550 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Ampere
Architecture
Kepler
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.175
8.6
CUDA
3.0
6.8
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
