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NVIDIA Tesla M40: specs and benchmarks
Price now
128$
Games supported
96%
- Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
- Core clock speed 948 MHz
- Max video memory 12 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 6008 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2015
Performance
34.05
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
34.05%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Tesla M40's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 133 | |
| Value for money | 100.00 | |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM200 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 10 November 2015 (6 years ago) | |
| Price now | $128 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
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 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 948 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| 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 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 213.9 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 6,844 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
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 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 6008 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Memory bandwidth | 288.4 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
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.
- Passmark
- GeekBench 5 CUDA
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.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
GeekBench 5 CUDA
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses CUDA API by NVIDIA.
Benchmark coverage: 5%
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.
Relative perfomance
Overall Tesla M40 performance compared to nearest competitors among server video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Tesla M40 from AMD is Radeon Pro Vega 64, which is slower by 3% and lower by 6 positions in our rating.
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