NVIDIA GRID M40 vs NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M40 and NVIDIA NVS 5400M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GRID M40

NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID M40

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 660 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
3x more memory clock speed: 5400 MHz vs 1800 MHz
5.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 28.064 vs 5.068
2.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 576.664 vs 229.562
Around 63% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 18.529 vs 11.384
4.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 87.629 vs 19.696

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 May 2016 vs 1 June 2012
Core clock speed	930 MHz vs 660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.064 vs 5.068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	576.664 vs 229.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.529 vs 11.384
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	87.629 vs 19.696

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA NVS 5400M

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M40
GPU 2: NVIDIA NVS 5400M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

28.064

5.068

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

576.664

229.562

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

18.529

11.384

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

87.629

19.696

Name	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA NVS 5400M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	28.064	5.068
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	576.664	229.562
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	18.529	11.384
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	87.629	19.696
PassMark - G3D Mark		623
PassMark - G2D Mark		188
Geekbench - OpenCL		2121
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.635
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2282
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1069
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1652
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2282

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GRID M40	NVIDIA NVS 5400M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Fermi
Code name	GM107	GF108
Launch date	18 May 2016	1 June 2012
Place in performance rating	1433	1436
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	930 MHz	660 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	585 million
Floating-point performance		253.4 gflops
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		10.56 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Memory
Memory clock speed	5400 MHz	1800 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
CUDA
DirectCompute
DirectX 11		DirectX 11
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