GRID M40 vs Radeon PRO WX 9100

Place in the ranking	167	671
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	11.23	no data
Power efficiency	10.14	6.15
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code name	Vega 10	GM107
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 July 2017 (7 years ago)	18 May 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,599	no data

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	4096	384
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	1033 MHz
Boost clock speed	1500 MHz	1000 MHz
Number of transistors	12,500 million	1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	384.0	33.06
Floating-point processing power	12.29 TFLOPS	0.7933 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	16
TMUs	256	32

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	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	no data

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	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	1300 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	83.2 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

6x mini-DisplayPort

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.1.126
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	32.32	4.26
Recency	10 July 2017	18 May 2016
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	230 Watt	50 Watt

PRO WX 9100 has a 658.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 1 year, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

GRID M40, on the other hand, has 360% lower power consumption.

The Radeon PRO WX 9100 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.