AMD Radeon Pro SSG vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	152	149
Value for money	25.38	5.55
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name	GM200	Fiji
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 November 2015 (7 years old)	26 July 2016 (6 years old)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$9,999
Current price	$171	$980 (0.1x MSRP)

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	4096
Core clock speed	948 MHz	1440 MHz
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	1050 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	8,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	260 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.9	268.8
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	12,288 gflops

Size and compatibility

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

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	HBM
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	1000 MBps
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	512.0 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	1x HDMI 1.4a, 3x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI	no data	+

API support

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.5
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.1
Vulkan	1.1.126	1.2.170
CUDA	5.2	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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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.

Radeon Pro SSG outperforms Tesla M40 by 3% in our combined benchmark results.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Advantages and disadvantages

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Performance score	25.97	26.69
Recency	10 November 2015	26 July 2016
Memory bus width	384	4096
Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	4096
Memory bandwidth	288.4	512
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	260 Watt

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