Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs Tesla M40 24 GB

Place in performance ranking	185	177
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	32.54	25.42
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	GM200	Vega 10
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	10 November 2015 (8 years ago)	19 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Current price	$250	$671

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Tesla M40 24 GB has 28% better value for money than Pro Vega 48.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	3072
Core clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Boost clock speed	1112 MHz	1300 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	12,500 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	213.5	249.6

Size and compatibility

Information on Tesla M40 24 GB and Radeon Pro Vega 48 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	None

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	2048 Bit
Memory clock speed	6 GB/s	1572 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	402.4 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors

No outputs

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
Vulkan	1.3	1.1.125
CUDA	5.2	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

Tesla M40 24 GB 27.04

Pro Vega 48 29.17
+7.9%

Radeon Pro Vega 48 outperforms Tesla M40 24 GB by 8% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

Tesla M40 24 GB 10474

Pro Vega 48 11299
+7.9%

Radeon Pro Vega 48 outperforms Tesla M40 24 GB by 8% in Passmark.