NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA L40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 48GB VRAM L40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2490MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
16640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
2.218 TFLOPS
L40
+3981%
90.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Oct 2022
GRID
Generation
Tesla Ada
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2490 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
142
1536
Shading Units
18176
96
TMUs
568
64
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
568
-
RT Cores
142
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
478.1 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
90.52 TFLOPS
2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
90.52 TFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1414 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
AD102
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
AD102-895-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
608 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
