Tesla M40 vs Radeon R5 A230

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated204
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data7.45
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameJetGM200
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2014 (10 years ago)10 November 2015 (9 years ago)

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 cores3203072
Core clock speed780 MHz948 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHz1112 MHz
Number of transistors690 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rate17.10213.5
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPS6.832 TFLOPS
ROPs896
TMUs20192

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2014 10 November 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB

Tesla M40 has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 A230 and Tesla M40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 A230 is a notebook card while Tesla M40 is a workstation one.


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