Tesla M40: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Tesla M40 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 25.68% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
NVIDIA started Tesla M40 sales 10 November 2015. This is a Maxwell 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 8-pin EPS power connector is required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Tesla M40: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 239 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 7.29 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019) | |
| GPU code name | GM200 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 10 November 2015 (9 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Tesla M40's specs 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 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 948 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1112 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 213.5 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 6.832 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 96 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 192 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla M40 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 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-pin EPS |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Tesla M40: 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 | 12 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1502 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 288.4 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla M40. 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 and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Tesla M40, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 5.2 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla M40. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of 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.
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.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla M40 is Radeon Pro SSG, which is faster by 7% and higher by 8 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to Tesla M40:
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 M40 according to our statistics.
