NVIDIA Tesla K20X vs NVIDIA Quadro 500M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM Tesla K20X and 1024MB VRAM Quadro 500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Tesla K20X 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (249.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
2592 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro 500M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 235W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla K20X
+1362%
3.935 TFLOPS
Quadro 500M
0.269 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2012
Release Date
Feb 2011
Tesla
Generation
Quadro Mobile
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
249.6GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
2688
Shading Units
96
224
TMUs
16
48
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
40.99 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
164.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
268.8 GFLOPS
1312 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
22.40 GFLOPS
Board Design
235W
TDP
35W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK110
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
N12M-Q3
Kepler
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
7.08 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
561 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.5
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
