Radeon Pro WX 8200 vs GRID M40

Place in the ranking	671	143
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	25.41
Power efficiency	5.92	10.58
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GM107	Vega 10
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 May 2016 (8 years ago)	13 August 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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	3584
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1500 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	230 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.06	336.0
Floating-point processing power	0.7933 TFLOPS	10.75 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	32	224

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 3.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin + 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	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	512.0 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 mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.1.125
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	4.26	35.05
Recency	18 May 2016	13 August 2018
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	230 Watt

GRID M40 has 360% lower power consumption.

Pro WX 8200, on the other hand, has a 722.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro WX 8200 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.