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NVIDIA Tesla M6 vs NVIDIA L40

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM Tesla M6 and 48GB VRAM L40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA Tesla M6 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 111% (2490MHz vs 1180MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)
16640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Tesla M6
3.625 TFLOPS
L40 +2397%
90.52 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Aug 2015
Release Date
Oct 2022
Tesla
Generation
Tesla Ada
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1180 MHz
Boost Clock
2490 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz

Memory

8GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
160.4GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
-
SM Count
142
1536
Shading Units
18176
96
TMUs
568
64
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
568
-
RT Cores
142
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
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Theoretical Performance

75.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
478.1 GPixel/s
113.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
90.52 TFLOPS
3.625 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
90.52 TFLOPS
113.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1414 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204
GPU Name
AD102
GM204-995-A1
GPU Variant
AD102-895-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
4 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
608 mm²

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
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
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