NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 400W)
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Boost Clock1005MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
6528 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
GRID A100A
+1651%
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
May 2020
GRID
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
108
384
Shading Units
6912
32
TMUs
432
16
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
400W
250 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA100
-
-
-
Maxwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
8.0
5.1
Shader Model
N/A
