NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

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NVIDIA GRID M40 NVIDIA RTX A6000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 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 300W)

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1800MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)

10368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID M40

0.793 TFLOPS

RTX A6000 +4781%

38.71 TFLOPS

GRID M40

VS

RTX A6000

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2020

GRID

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1800 MHz

1300 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

83.20GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

10752

32

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

16.53 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

33.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

604.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

38.71 TFLOPS

793.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.71 TFLOPS

24.79 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

604.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

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