Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GRID K120Q

Place in the ranking	1150	200
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	no data
Power efficiency	0.41	54.29
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GK107	AD107
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	2 July 2014 (10 years ago)	26 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$125	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	192	2048
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1485 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2025 MHz
Number of transistors	1,270 million	18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	35 Watt
Texture fill rate	13.60	129.6
Floating-point processing power	0.3264 TFLOPS	8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	32
TMUs	16	64
Tensor Cores	no data	64
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	16

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).

Laptop size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x8
Width	IGP	no 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 type	DDR3	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	891 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	28.51 GB/s	128.0 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

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 Connectors

No outputs

Portable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	3.0	8.9

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	0.76	27.26
Recency	2 July 2014	26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 3486.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 271.4% lower power consumption.

The RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID K120Q in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID K120Q is a workstation card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.