GRID M40 vs Tesla M60

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Tesla M60 and GRID M40, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

Tesla M60
2015
8 GB GDDR5, 300 Watt
19.57
+359%

Tesla M60 outperforms GRID M40 by a whopping 359% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking282674
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency4.555.94
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM204GM107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date30 August 2015 (9 years ago)18 May 2016 (8 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 cores2048384
Core clock speed557 MHz1033 MHz
Boost clock speed1178 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate150.833.06
Floating-point processing power4.825 TFLOPS0.7933 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs12832

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 connectors1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1253 MHz1300 MHz
Memory bandwidth160.4 GB/s83.2 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 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA5.25.0

Gaming performance

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

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 19.57 4.26
Recency 30 August 2015 18 May 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 300 Watt 50 Watt

Tesla M60 has a 359.4% higher aggregate performance score.

GRID M40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 months, and 500% lower power consumption.

The Tesla M60 is our recommended choice as it beats the GRID M40 in performance tests.


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