NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB

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NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB and 24GB VRAM Tesla M40 24 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1935GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A100 PCIe 80 GB +185%

19.49 TFLOPS

Tesla M40 24 GB

6.832 TFLOPS

Blender

A100 PCIe 80 GB +699%

3823

Tesla M40 24 GB

478

OctaneBench

A100 PCIe 80 GB +138%

310

Tesla M40 24 GB

130

A100 PCIe 80 GB

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Tesla M40 24 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

Nov 2015

Tesla Ampere

Generation

Tesla Maxwell

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1065 MHz

Base Clock

948 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1112 MHz

1512 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

80GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

5120bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1935GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

108

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

6912

Shading Units

3072

432

TMUs

192

160

ROPs

96

432

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

80 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

225.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

106.8 GPixel/s

609.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

213.5 GTexel/s

77.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

19.49 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.832 TFLOPS

9.746 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

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

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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