NVIDIA Tesla K40c vs AMD FirePro M6000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla K40c and AMD FirePro M6000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA Tesla K40c

AMD FirePro M6000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla K40c

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
5.6x more texture fill rate: 178.8 GTexel / s vs 32 GTexel / s
4.5x more pipelines: 2880 vs 640
4.2x better floating-point performance: 4,291 gflops vs 1,024 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2 GB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
2.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 17468 vs 8095
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4495 vs 1820

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 October 2013 vs 1 July 2012
Texture fill rate	178.8 GTexel / s vs 32 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2880 vs 640
Floating-point performance	4,291 gflops vs 1,024 gflops
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	17468 vs 8095
PassMark - G3D Mark	4495 vs 1820

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro M6000

Around 7% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 745 MHz
5.7x lower typical power consumption: 43 Watt vs 245 Watt
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 776 vs 325

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 745 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	43 Watt vs 245 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	776 vs 325

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla K40c
GPU 2: AMD FirePro M6000

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

17468

8095

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

325

776

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4495

1820

Name	NVIDIA Tesla K40c	AMD FirePro M6000
Geekbench - OpenCL	17468	8095
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	61.566
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1779.043
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	103.169
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	308.261
PassMark - G2D Mark	325	776
PassMark - G3D Mark	4495	1820
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3024
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3024
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1832
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla K40c	AMD FirePro M6000
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK110B	Heathrow
Launch date	8 October 2013	1 July 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$7,699
Place in performance rating	531	528
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	745 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,291 gflops	1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2880	640
Texture fill rate	178.8 GTexel / s	32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	245 Watt	43 Watt
Transistor count	7,080 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
StereoOutput3D
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Bus support		n / a
Form factor		MXM-B
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0