NVIDIA GRID M40: specs and benchmarks

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 5.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GRID M40: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	585
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	GM107
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	18 May 2016 (7 years old)
Current price	$8.16	of 158889 (A100 PCIe)

Technical specs

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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	1,870 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	33.06	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and 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

Memory

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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	5200 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

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 support

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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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of GRID M40. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

88 Mh/s

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.

Relative perfomance

Overall GRID M40 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.

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