NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs NVIDIA Tesla M40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded and 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1335MHz vs 1112MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
NVIDIA Tesla M40 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A500 Embedded
5.468 TFLOPS
Tesla M40
+24%
6.832 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX A500 Embedded
2628
Tesla M40
+102%
5323
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Nov 2015
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Tesla Maxwell
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
435 MHz
Base Clock
948 MHz
1335 MHz
Boost Clock
1112 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
288.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
3072
64
TMUs
192
32
ROPs
96
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
42.72 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
106.8 GPixel/s
85.44 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
213.5 GTexel/s
5.468 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.468 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.832 TFLOPS
85.44 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
213.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
250W
-
Suggested PSU
600 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA107S
GPU Name
GM200
-
GPU Variant
GM200-895-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
601 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
