NVIDIA Tesla M40 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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NVIDIA Tesla M40 AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla M40 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1233MHz vs 1112MHz)

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Tesla M40 +20%

6.832 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

Tesla M40

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Dec 2016

Tesla Maxwell

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

948 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1112 MHz

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

3072

Shading Units

2304

192

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

106.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

213.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

6.832 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

213.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM200-895-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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