NVIDIA GRID K2: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
NVIDIA started GRID K2 sales 11 May 2013 at a recommended price of $5,199. This is Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz 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. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 11.85 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of GRID K2's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
2.51
Architecture
Kepler
GPU code name
GK104
Market segment
Workstation
Release date
11 May 2013
Launch price (MSRP)
$5,199
Technical specs
GRID K2's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GRID K2's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
267 mm
Supplementary power connectors
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 don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
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 video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
No outputs
API support
APIs supported by GRID K2, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 (11_0)
Shader Model
5.1
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.1.126
CUDA
3.0
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GRID K2. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
11.85
Passmark
3176
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GRID K2. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
114 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GRID K2 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GRID K2 performance compared to its nearest competitors.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GRID K2 from AMD is FirePro W5100, which is slower by 4% and lower by 19 positions in our rating.