GRID M40: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

GRID M40 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 3.77% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 ranking728
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency6.07of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM107
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date18 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 cores384of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1033 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1000 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate33.06of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power0.7933 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs32of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache192 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache2 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1300 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth83.2 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GRID M40, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA5.0

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GRID M40. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

GRID M40
3.77

We have no data on GRID M40 benchmark results.


Gaming performance

Let's see how good GRID M40 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GRID M40's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Tesla M2070 113.53
FirePro W600 101.59
GRID M40 100
Quadro K2000 94.69

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GRID M40 is FirePro W600, which is faster by 2% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GRID M40:

FirePro V7900 135.54
FirePro W600 101.59
GRID M40 100

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