Tesla M40 24 GB and A100 PCIe 80 GB - video card comparison

Tesla M40 24 GB

A100 PCIe 80 GB

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM200

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

November 2015

June 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

Boost clock speed

1112 MHz

1410 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

54,200 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

6912

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

Texture fill rate

213.5

609.1

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

80 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

5120 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

3.2 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

2,039 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

N/A

CUDA

5.2

8.0

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

N/A