Radeon PRO W7700 vs GRID M40

Place in the ranking	676	61
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	56.21
Power efficiency	5.95	18.29
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GM107	Navi 32
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 May 2016 (8 years ago)	13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	3072
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	1900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2600 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	190 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.06	499.2
Floating-point processing power	0.7933 TFLOPS	31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	96
TMUs	32	192
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	241 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	576.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.0	-

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.27	49.85
Recency	18 May 2016	13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	190 Watt

GRID M40 has 280% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has a 1067.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon PRO W7700 is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID M40 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.