Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB vs Tesla M40

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking203not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.55no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGM200GV100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 November 2015 (9 years ago)27 March 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores30725120
Core clock speed948 MHz1230 MHz
Boost clock speed1112 MHz1380 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate213.5441.6
Floating-point processing power6.832 TFLOPS14.13 TFLOPS
ROPs96128
TMUs192320
Tensor Coresno data640

Form factor & 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPS2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount12 GB32 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz876 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/s897.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.01.2
Vulkan1.31.2.131
CUDA5.27.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2015 27 March 2018
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm

Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB has an age advantage of 2 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M40 and Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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