RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs GRID M40

Place in the ranking	674	4
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	5.90	21.76
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	GM107	AD102
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	18 May 2016 (8 years ago)	5 January 2024 (less than a year 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	14080
Core clock speed	1033 MHz	975 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2460 MHz
Number of transistors	1,870 million	76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	285 Watt
Texture fill rate	33.06	1,082
Floating-point processing power	0.7933 TFLOPS	69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	176
TMUs	32	440
Tensor Cores	no data	440
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	110

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 16-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	48 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	864.0 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 1.4a

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	6.8
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.3
CUDA	5.0	8.9

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	89.61
Recency	18 May 2016	5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	48 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	285 Watt

GRID M40 has 470% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has a 2003.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The RTX 5880 Ada Generation 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.