NVIDIA Tesla M40 vs NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

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NVIDIA Tesla M40

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 and 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla M40 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1410MHz vs 1112MHz)

More VRAM (80GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.94TB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla M40

6.832 TFLOPS

A100 PCIe 80 GB +185%

19.49 TFLOPS

Blender

Tesla M40

106

A100 PCIe 80 GB +3411%

3722

OctaneBench

Tesla M40

123

A100 PCIe 80 GB +152%

310

Tesla M40

VS

A100 PCIe 80 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jun 2021

Tesla Maxwell

Generation

Tesla Ampere(Axx)

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

948 MHz

Base Clock

1065 MHz

1112 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1512 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

80GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1.94TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

108

3072

Shading Units

6912

192

TMUs

432

96

ROPs

160

-

Tensor Cores

432

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

80 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

106.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

213.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

6.832 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

213.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA100

GM200-895-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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