Tesla V100 DGXS vs Tesla K40m

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking510not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.12no data
Power efficiency2.30no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Volta (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGK110BGV100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 November 2013 (10 years ago)27 March 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,699 no data

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 cores28805120
Core clock speed745 MHz1297 MHz
Boost clock speed876 MHz1530 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million21,100 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)245 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate210.2489.6
Floating-point processing power5.046 TFLOPS15.67 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs240320
Tensor Coresno data640

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 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5HBM2
Maximum RAM amount12 GB32 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz876 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 GB/s897.0 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 Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.57.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 November 2013 27 March 2018
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 245 Watt 250 Watt

Tesla K40m has 2% lower power consumption.

Tesla V100 DGXS, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K40m and Tesla V100 DGXS. We've got no test results to judge.


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