NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe and NVIDIA Tesla M40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies, API support. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1246 MHz vs 948 MHz
  • Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1380 MHz vs 1114 MHz
  • 2.1x more texture fill rate: 441.6 GTexel / s vs 213.9 GTexel / s
  • Around 67% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 3072
  • 2.1x better floating-point performance: 14,131 gflops vs 6,844 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
Launch date 21 June 2017 vs 10 November 2015
Core clock speed 1246 MHz vs 948 MHz
Boost clock speed 1380 MHz vs 1114 MHz
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s vs 213.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines 5120 vs 3072
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops vs 6,844 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M40

  • 3.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 1758 MHz
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 1758 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe
GPU 2: NVIDIA Tesla M40

Name NVIDIA Tesla V100 PCIe NVIDIA Tesla M40
Geekbench - OpenCL 39184
PassMark - G2D Mark 437
PassMark - G3D Mark 10220
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 V100 PCIe NVIDIA Tesla M40

Essentials

Architecture Volta Maxwell 2.0
Code name GV100 GM200
Launch date 21 June 2017 10 November 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 260
Type Desktop Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1380 MHz 1114 MHz
Core clock speed 1246 MHz 948 MHz
Floating-point performance 14,131 gflops 6,844 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 5120 3072
Texture fill rate 441.6 GTexel / s 213.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 21,100 million 8,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Length 267 mm

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 12 GB
Memory bandwidth 900.1 GB / s 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 4096 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1758 MHz 6008 MHz
Memory type HBM2 GDDR5

Technologies

CUDA

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6