NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs NVIDIA Tesla M40
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Nov 2015
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Tesla Maxwell
Type
AI GPU
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1095 MHz
948 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1112 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
40GB
12GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
5120bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1555GB/s
288.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
-
Shading Units
6912
3072
TMUs
432
192
ROPs
160
96
Tensor Cores
432
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
40 MB
3 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
225.6 GPixel/s
106.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
609.1 GTexel/s
213.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
77.97 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
19.49 TFLOPS
6.832 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
9.746 TFLOPS
213.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
GM200
Architecture
Ampere
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
8 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
601 mm²
GPU Variant
-
GM200-895-A1
Board Design
TDP
400W
250W
Suggested PSU
800 W
600 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
5.2
Shader Model
N/A
6.7
📊 Benchmark
Blender
2,186
106
3DMark Time Spy
-
5,323
OctaneBench
-
123