NVIDIA Tesla M40 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

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NVIDIA Tesla M40 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

We compared a Professional market GPU: 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 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 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1710MHz vs 1112MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla M40

6.832 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +348%

30.64 TFLOPS

Blender

Tesla M40

106

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +5274%

5697

OctaneBench

Tesla M40

123

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +352%

556

Tesla M40

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GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

Tesla Maxwell

Generation

GeForce 30

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

948 MHz

Base Clock

1260 MHz

1112 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

8960

192

TMUs

280

96

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

70

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

5 MB

Theoretical Performance

106.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

213.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

478.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

30.64 TFLOPS

6.832 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.64 TFLOPS

213.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

478.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

GA102

GM200-895-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-220-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

6.6

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