GRID M40 vs Radeon Instinct MI100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 300W)
Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1502MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
7296 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
Radeon Instinct MI100
+2809%
23070
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Nov 2020
GRID
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1502 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
120
384
Shading Units
7680
32
TMUs
480
16
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Arcturus
-
GPU Variant
Arcturus XL
Maxwell
Architecture
CDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
25.6 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
