Tesla P40 vs GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448

Place in the ranking	505	172
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.61	2.64
Power efficiency	2.87	9.28
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	GF110	GP102
Market segment	Desktop	Workstation
Release date	29 November 2011 (12 years ago)	13 September 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$289	$5,699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla P40 has 64% better value for money than GTX 560 Ti 448.

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	448	3840
Core clock speed	732 MHz	1303 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1531 MHz
Number of transistors	3,000 million	11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	40.99	367.4
Floating-point processing power	1.312 TFLOPS	11.76 TFLOPS
ROPs	40	96
TMUs	56	240

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 2.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	8-pin EPS

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	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	24 GB
Memory bus width	320 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	950 MHz	1808 MHz
Memory bandwidth	152.0 GB/s	347.1 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	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	2.0	6.1

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	8.21	31.61
Recency	29 November 2011	13 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount	1280 MB	24 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	250 Watt

GTX 560 Ti 448 has 19% lower power consumption.

Tesla P40, on the other hand, has a 285% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 1820% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 150% more advanced lithography process.

The Tesla P40 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 is a desktop card while Tesla P40 is a workstation one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.