NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs NVIDIA GRID M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 8GB VRAM GRID M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID M40 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID M6 8Q
+179%
2.218 TFLOPS
GRID M40
0.793 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
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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-
-
-
-
-
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
83.20GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
384
96
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
46.21 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.53 GPixel/s
69.31 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.06 GTexel/s
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2.218 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
793.3 GFLOPS
69.31 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GM107
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
5.0
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
