GRID M40 vs A10 PCIe
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
A10 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (600.2GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
8832 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
A10 PCIe
+3839%
31240
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Apr 2021
GRID
Generation
Tesla
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
885 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
600.2GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
72
384
Shading Units
9216
32
TMUs
288
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
72
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
488.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
31.24 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
31.24 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
976.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA102
-
GPU Variant
GA102-890-A1
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
6.6
