NVIDIA GRID M40 vs 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
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
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
Board Design
50W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA102
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-
-
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
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
