Quadro M4000 and A40 PCIe - video card comparison

Quadro M4000

A40 PCIe

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM204

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

June 2015

October 2020

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1 x 6-pin

8-pin EPS

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1755 MHz

Core clock speed

773 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

2,573 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

5,200 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1664

10752

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.39

589.7

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

14.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

Up to 192 GB/s

695.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo

3x DisplayPort

Number of simultaneous displays

4

-

DirectX

12

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

5.2

8.6

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5

6.5

Vulkan

+

1.2

3D Vision Pro

+

-

High-Performance Video I/O6

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

Multi-display synchronization

Quadro Sync

-

nView Desktop Management

+

-