Tesla M4: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started Tesla M4 sales 10 November 2015. This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 88 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 50 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Tesla M4: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM206 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 10 November 2015 (8 years ago) | |
| Current price | $70 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Tesla M4's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla M4's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 872 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1072 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 2,940 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 68.61 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 2,195 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla M4 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Tesla M4: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 4 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5500 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 88 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla M4. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Tesla M4, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla M4 is FirePro D300.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Tesla M4 according to our statistics.
