NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q 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 80W)
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1260MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
7040 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+2259%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Mar 2022
GRID
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
585 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
384
Shading Units
7424
32
TMUs
232
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
80W
250 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA103
-
-
-
Maxwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
22 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.8
