Tesla K40d vs FirePro W8000

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking430not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation1.08no data
Power efficiency3.28no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameTahitiGK110B
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date14 June 2012 (12 years ago)22 November 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 $7,699

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores17922880
Core clock speed900 MHz745 MHz
Boost clock speedno data876 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million7,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)225 Watt245 Watt
Texture fill rate100.8210.2
Floating-point processing power3.226 TFLOPS5.046 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs112240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCIe 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length279 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth176 GB/s288.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x SDINo outputs
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 June 2012 22 November 2013
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 225 Watt 245 Watt

FirePro W8000 has 8.9% lower power consumption.

Tesla K40d, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W8000 and Tesla K40d. We've got no test results to judge.


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