NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA RTX A4500
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M40 and 20GB VRAM RTX A4500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)
NVIDIA RTX A4500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (20GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (640.0GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
6784 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
RTX A4500
+2882%
23.65 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2016
Release Date
Nov 2021
GRID
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
1300 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
20GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
320bit
83.20GB/s
Bandwidth
640.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
56
384
Shading Units
7168
32
TMUs
224
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
RT Cores
56
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
16.53 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
158.4 GPixel/s
33.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
369.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.65 TFLOPS
793.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.65 TFLOPS
24.79 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
369.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GA102
-
-
-
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
6.7
