NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
+589%
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
435 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
384
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA107S
-
-
-
Maxwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
8.6
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
