AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

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AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 NVIDIA Tesla M40

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 and 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

NVIDIA Tesla M40 's Advantages

Boost Clock1112MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Instinct MI8 +19%

8.192 TFLOPS

Tesla M40

6.832 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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Tesla M40

Graphics Card

Dec 2016

Release Date

Nov 2015

Radeon Instinct

Generation

Tesla Maxwell

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

948 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1112 MHz

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

3072

256

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

106.8 GPixel/s

256.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

213.5 GTexel/s

8.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.832 TFLOPS

512.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

213.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Fiji

GPU Name

GM200

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

GPU Variant

GM200-895-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8.9 billion

Transistors

8 billion

596 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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