Tesla P40 vs Quadro NVS 300M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated183
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data2.44
Power efficiencyno data8.36
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameG73GP102
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date24 May 2006 (18 years ago)13 September 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$5,699

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 cores133840
Core clock speed500 MHz1303 MHz
Boost clock speed450 MHz1531 MHz
Number of transistors177 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)16 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000367.4
Floating-point processing powerno data11.76 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs4240

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1808 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s347.1 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.7
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 May 2006 13 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 16 Watt 250 Watt

NVS 300M has 1462.5% lower power consumption.

Tesla P40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 462.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 300M and Tesla P40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro NVS 300M is a mobile workstation card while Tesla P40 is a workstation one.


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