Radeon RX 6700 vs GRID M40

Place in the ranking	742	90
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.09	19.85
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)
GPU code name	GM107	Navi 22
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 May 2016 (9 years ago)	9 June 2021 (4 years ago)

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	2304
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	1941 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2450 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	17,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	175 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.06	352.8
Floating-point processing power	0.7933 TFLOPS	11.29 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	32	144
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	36
L0 Cache	no data	576 KB
L1 Cache	192 KB	512 KB
L2 Cache	2 MB	3 MB
L3 Cache	no data	80 MB

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	267 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	10 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	160 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	320.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK support

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	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
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	3.93	44.83
Recency	18 May 2016	9 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	10 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	175 Watt

GRID M40 has 250% lower power consumption.

RX 6700, on the other hand, has a 1040.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 5 years, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 6700 is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID M40 in performance tests.

Be aware that GRID M40 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 6700 is a desktop one.