Tesla M40 vs RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Tesla M40 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1335MHz vs 1112MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Tesla M40
+24%
6832
RTX A500 Embedded
5468
3DMark Time Spy
Tesla M40
+102%
5323
RTX A500 Embedded
2628
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Mar 2022
Tesla Maxwell
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
948 MHz
Base Clock
435 MHz
1112 MHz
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.4GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
16
3072
Shading Units
2048
192
TMUs
64
96
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
106.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
213.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
6.832 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
213.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
20W
600 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM200
GPU Name
GA107S
GM200-895-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
601 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
