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 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 160.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics 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.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	545
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.13
Power efficiency	2.18	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name	GK104
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	11 May 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$5,199	of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

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 cores	1536	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	745 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors	3,540 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	225 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	95.36	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	2.289 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	32	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	128	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & 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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5 (5.1)
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.175
CUDA	3.0

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 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.

GRID K2 7.09

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. 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.

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.

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.