RTX A500 Embedded vs GRID M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 8GB VRAM GRID M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A500 Embedded Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 83.20GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)
GRID M40 Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
+589%
5468
GRID M40
793
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
May 2016
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
-
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1300 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
83.20GB/s
Render Config
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
384
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.53 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.06 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
793.3 GFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
24.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
50W
-
Suggested PSU
250 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GM107
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
