Tesla M40 and Tesla A100 - video card comparison

Tesla M40

Tesla A100

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

GM200

GA100

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

November 2015

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

8-pin EPS

None

Boost clock speed

1112 MHz

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Core clock speed

948 MHz

1110 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,844 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

8,000 million

38,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

7936

Power consumption (TDP)

250 Watt

260 Watt

Texture fill rate

213.5

550.6

Memory type

GDDR5

HBM2e

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

32 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

4096 Bit

Memory clock speed

6 GB/s

2400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

288.4 GB/s

1,229 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.2

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OpenCL

3.0

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OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

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Vulkan

1.3

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