NVIDIA Tesla M40 vs AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M40 and AMD Radeon R9 Nano videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA Tesla M40

AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M40

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 1114 MHz vs 1000 MHz
3x more maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 4 GB
12x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	10 November 2015 vs 27 August 2015
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz vs 500 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 256.0 GTexel / s vs 213.9 GTexel / s
Around 33% higher pipelines: 4096 vs 3072
Around 20% better floating-point performance: 8,192 gflops vs 6,844 gflops
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 250 Watt

Texture fill rate	256.0 GTexel / s vs 213.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	4096 vs 3072
Floating-point performance	8,192 gflops vs 6,844 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M40
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 Nano

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M40	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Geekbench - OpenCL	39179
PassMark - G2D Mark	445
PassMark - G3D Mark	10448
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4579

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M40	AMD Radeon R9 Nano
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 3.0
Code name	GM200	Fiji
Launch date	10 November 2015	27 August 2015
Place in performance rating	258	261
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1114 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	948 MHz
Floating-point performance	6,844 gflops	8,192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	3072	4096
Texture fill rate	213.9 GTexel / s	256.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	8,000 million	8,900 million
Compute units		64
Stream Processors		4096
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB / s	512 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	4096 bit
Memory clock speed	6008 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
FRTC
HD3D
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore