NVIDIA GRID K100: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GRID K100 sales 28 June 2013 at a recommended price of $63. This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.89 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.51 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 130 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GRID K100: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Kepler (2012−2018) | |
| GPU code name | GK107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 28 June 2013 (11 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $63 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
GRID K100's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GRID K100's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 192 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 850 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 1,270 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 13.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.3264 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GRID K100 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).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GRID K100: 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 type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 891 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.51 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GRID K100. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GRID K100, 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 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GRID K100 is FirePro V5900.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GRID K100 according to our statistics.
