GRID K560Q vs FirePro S9300 X2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameCapsaicinGK104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date31 March 2016 (8 years ago)2 July 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,999 $3,599

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961536
Core clock speed850 MHz745 MHz
Number of transistors8,900 million3,540 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate217.695.36
Floating-point processing power6.963 TFLOPS2.289 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs256128

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBMGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s160.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.05.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 March 2016 2 July 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 225 Watt

S9300 X2 has an age advantage of 1 year.

GRID K560Q, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9300 X2 and GRID K560Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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