Quadro FX 380 vs GRID K340

Place in the ranking	817	1311
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	0.01
Power efficiency	0.98	0.95
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	GK107	G96
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	23 July 2013 (12 years ago)	30 March 2009 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$3,299	$129

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

GRID K340 has 100% better value for money than FX 380.

Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores	384 ×4	16
Core clock speed	950 MHz	450 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	314 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	34 Watt
Texture fill rate	30.40 ×4	3.600
Floating-point processing power	0.7296 TFLOPS ×4	0.0352 TFLOPS
ROPs	8 ×4	8
TMUs	32 ×4	8
L1 Cache	32 KB	no data
L2 Cache	128 KB	32 KB

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm	198 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	None

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 type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB ×4	256 MB
Memory bus width	64 Bit ×4	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	700 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB/s ×4	22.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	5.1	4.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	3.0	1.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.87	0.42
Recency	23 July 2013	30 March 2009
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	34 Watt

GRID K340 has a 583.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

FX 380, on the other hand, has 561.8% lower power consumption.

The GRID K340 is our recommended choice as it beats the Quadro FX 380 in performance tests.