NVIDIA GRID K1 vs NVIDIA GRID M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K1 and 8GB VRAM GRID M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (83.20GB/s vs 28.51GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K1
0.326 TFLOPS
GRID M40
+143%
0.793 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2013
Release Date
May 2016
GRID
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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-
-
-
-
-
891 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.51GB/s
Bandwidth
83.20GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
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192
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.53 GPixel/s
13.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.06 GTexel/s
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326.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
793.3 GFLOPS
13.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GK107
GPU Name
GM107
GK107-450-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.27 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
5.0
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
