NVIDIA GRID K2: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GRID K2 sales 11 May 2013 at a recommended price of $5,199 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 7.06% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GRID K2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking509
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Value for money1.97
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK104
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date11 May 2013 (10 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)$5,199
Current price$9.89 (0x MSRP)of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GRID K2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GRID K2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1536of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed745 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors3,540 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)225 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate95.36of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance2x 2,289 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GRID K2 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GRID K2: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed5 GB/sof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth160.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GRID K2. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by GRID K2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.2.175
CUDA3.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GRID K2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GRID K2 2736

GeekBench 5 Metal

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Metal API by Apple.

Benchmark coverage: 0%

GRID K2 5557

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GRID K2 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall GRID K2 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GRID K2 is FirePro S7150, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GRID K2 according to our statistics.

User ratings: view and submit

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