NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM GRID A100A and 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Tesla M40 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1112MHz vs 1005MHz)

Lower TDP (250W vs 400W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A +103%

13.89 TFLOPS

Tesla M40

6.832 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

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Tesla M40

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Nov 2015

GRID

Generation

Tesla Maxwell

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

948 MHz

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

1112 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

6144bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

3072

432

TMUs

192

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

106.8 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

213.5 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.832 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

213.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-895-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

400W

TDP

250W

800 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

5.2

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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