GRID M40 vs Arctic Sound M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M 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 500W)
Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
7808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
793
Arctic Sound M
+1760%
14750
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Jan 2022
GRID
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
384
Shading Units
8192
32
TMUs
256
16
ROPs
128
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
500W
250 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
Maxwell
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
8 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
