GRID M40 vs GRID M6 8Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GRID M40 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)
GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
GRID M6 8Q
+179%
2218
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Aug 2015
GRID
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
160.4GB/s
Render Config
384
Shading Units
1536
32
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
46.21 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.31 GTexel/s
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.218 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
69.31 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
100W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-995-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
