Tesla K40c and FirePro M8900 - video card comparison
Tesla K40c
FirePro M8900
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK180
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Workstation
Mobile workstation
Release date
October 2013
April 2011
Bus support
-
n/a
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
876 MHz
-
Core clock speed
745 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,291 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
7,080 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2880
960
Power consumption (TDP)
245 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
210.2
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.4 GB/s
115 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
3.5
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.103
N/A