Tesla M40 vs Tesla M4

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data7.54
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM206GM200
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 November 2015 (9 years ago)10 November 2015 (9 years ago)

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 cores10243072
Core clock speed872 MHz948 MHz
Boost clock speed1072 MHz1112 MHz
Number of transistors2,940 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate68.61213.5
Floating-point processing power2.195 TFLOPS6.832 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs64192

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 GB/s288.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.25.2

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt

Tesla M4 has 400% lower power consumption.

Tesla M40, on the other hand, has a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M4 and Tesla M40. We've got no test results to judge.


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