Product Compare

NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 280

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Nov 2015 Mar 2014
Generation Tesla Maxwell Volcanic Islands
Type Professional Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 948 MHz 827 MHz
Boost Clock 1112 MHz 933 MHz
Memory Clock 1502 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 24GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 384bit
Bandwidth 288.4GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units 3072 1792
TMUs 192 112
ROPs 96 32
L1 Cache 48 KB (per SMM) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 3 MB 768 KB
Compute Units 28
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 106.8 GPixel/s 29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 213.5 GTexel/s 104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 6.832 TFLOPS 3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 213.5 GFLOPS 836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name GM200 Tahiti
GPU Variant GM200-895-A1 Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 8 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 601 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 250W 200W
Suggested PSU 600 W 550 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 8-pin EPS 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
CUDA 5.2
Shader Model 6.7 5.1