GRID M60-2Q vs Quadro4 100 NVS

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated381
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data4.11
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameNV17 A3GM204
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 December 2003 (21 year ago)30 August 2015 (9 years ago)

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 coresno data2048
Core clock speed250 MHz557 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1178 MHz
Number of transistors29 million5,200 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate1.000150.8
Floating-point processing powerno data4.825 TFLOPS
ROPs264
TMUs4128

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Length168 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount64 MB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1253 MHz
Memory bandwidth5.312 GB/s160.4 GB/s

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 Connectors1x LFH60No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.012 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 December 2003 30 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 225 Watt

Quadro4 100 NVS has 2150% lower power consumption.

GRID M60-2Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 435.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro4 100 NVS and GRID M60-2Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS
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