NVIDIA Tesla M40 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M40 and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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).

NVIDIA Tesla M40

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M40

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 40% higher core clock speed: 948 MHz vs 675 MHz
7.9x more texture fill rate: 213.9 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 3072 vs 640
7.9x better floating-point performance: 6,844 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
6x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 2 GB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
7.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 10220 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	10 November 2015 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	948 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	213.9 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3072 vs 640
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	10220 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

6.3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 566 vs 437

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	566 vs 437

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

437

566

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

10220

1373

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M40	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Geekbench - OpenCL	39184
PassMark - G2D Mark	437	566
PassMark - G3D Mark	10220	1373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	183.81
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	2637.997
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.059
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	160.359
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	688.388

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M40	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM200	Heathrow
Launch date	10 November 2015	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	260	257
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz
Core clock speed	948 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3072	640
Texture fill rate	213.9 GTexel / s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	8,000 million	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB / s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0