GRID M40: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GRID M40 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.84% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GRID M40 sales 18 May 2016. This is a Maxwell architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.3 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GRID M40: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 721 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 6.01 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | GM107 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 18 May 2016 (9 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GRID M40's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GRID M40's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 384 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1033 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,870 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 33.06 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.7933 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 32 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GRID M40 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | 2-slot |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GRID M40: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1300 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 83.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GRID M40. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by GRID M40, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 5.0 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GRID M40. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GRID M40 is FirePro W600, which is faster by 2% and higher by 6 positions in our ranking.
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