NVIDIA Tesla M40: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla M40 sales 10 November 2015. This is Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6.01 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.04 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

General info

Of Tesla M40's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in our rating

148

Value for money (0-100)

3.33

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GPU code name

GM200

Market segment

Workstation

Launch date

10 November 2015 (5 years ago)

Price now

$343

of 9999 (Radeon Pro Vega II)

Technical specs

Tesla M40's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla M40's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

of 10752 (GA102)

Core clock speed

948 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Boost clock speed

1114 MHz

of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)

Number of transistors

8,000 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)

Thermal design power (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

213.9

of 781.8 (Radeon Pro W6900X)

Floating-point performance

6,844 gflops

of 2918.4 (GRID K340)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Tesla M40's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

267 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla M40: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

of 80 (A100 SXM4 80 GB)

Memory bus width

384 Bit

of 6144 (GRID A100A)

Memory clock speed

6008 MHz

of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon VII)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla M40. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Tesla M40, 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

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of Tesla M40. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

30.04

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

7950

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Tesla M40 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

This video card matches 97% minimum and 90% recommended requirements of all games known to us.

Minimum

97%