Tesla M40: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Tesla M40 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 23.11% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

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 ranking249
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency7.44of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM200
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date10 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 cores3072of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed948 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1112 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors8,000 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate213.5of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power6.832 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs96of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs192of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache1.1 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache3 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

APIs supported by Tesla M40, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA5.2

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.

Tesla M40
23.11

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.

Tesla M40 Samples: 20 10219

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.

Tesla M40 31401

Gaming performance

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.

Closest competitors

Tesla M40's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


RTX A1000 105.88
Tesla T4 103.81
Tesla M40 100
L4 95.11
Quadro M5000 92.21
Arc Pro A60 91.78

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.

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