NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA RTX A2000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)
Lower TDP (50W vs 70W)
NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1200MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
2944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
RTX A2000
+907%
7.987 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Aug 2021
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
562 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1200 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
26
384
Shading Units
3328
32
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
104
-
RT Cores
26
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
57.60 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.987 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
70W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA106
-
GPU Variant
GA106-850-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
12 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
276 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
