Tesla K40c: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Tesla K40c provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 11.65% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started Tesla K40c sales 8 October 2013 at a recommended price of $7,699 . This is a Kepler architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 12 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 245 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Tesla K40c: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking408
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26
Power efficiency3.32of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)
GPU code nameGK180
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,699 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

Tesla K40c's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Tesla K40c's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2880of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed745 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed876 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors7,080 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)245 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate210.2of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power5.046 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs48of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs240of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Tesla K40c and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Tesla K40c: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount12 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1502 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Tesla K40c. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by Tesla K40c, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.103
CUDA3.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Tesla K40c. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Tesla K40c 11.65

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Tesla K40c 4494

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Tesla K40c 17468

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Tesla K40c is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

Tesla K40c's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Tesla K40c 100
Tesla K20m 98.63
RTX A400 96.74
Quadro K4200 96.31

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Tesla K40c is FirePro S7000, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Tesla K40c:

Tesla K40c 100
FirePro D500 92.96

Similar GPUs

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Community ratings

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