Tesla T4 vs Tesla M4

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated200
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data27.30
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameGM206TU104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 November 2015 (9 years ago)13 September 2018 (6 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 cores10242560
Core clock speed872 MHz585 MHz
Boost clock speed1072 MHz1590 MHz
Number of transistors2,940 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate68.61254.4
Floating-point processing power2.195 TFLOPS8.141 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs64160
Tensor Coresno data320
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 GB/s320.0 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 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.27.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2015 13 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 70 Watt

Tesla M4 has 40% lower power consumption.

Tesla T4, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla M4 and Tesla T4. We've got no test results to judge.


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