Radeon Pro VII vs Tesla M40

Place in the ranking	204	161
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	15.69
Power efficiency	7.45	9.14
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code name	GM200	Vega 20
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	10 November 2015 (9 years ago)	13 May 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,899

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 cores	3072	3840
Core clock speed	948 MHz	1400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1112 MHz	1700 MHz
Number of transistors	8,000 million	13,230 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	213.5	408.0
Floating-point processing power	6.832 TFLOPS	13.06 TFLOPS
ROPs	96	64
TMUs	192	240

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm	305 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	8-pin EPS	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR5	HBM2
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1502 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.4 GB/s	1024 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 Connectors

No outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.7	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
Vulkan	1.3	1.3
CUDA	5.2	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. 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 M40 27.15

Pro VII 33.31
+22.7%

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 M40 10465

Pro VII 12838
+22.7%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	27.15	33.31
Recency	10 November 2015	13 May 2020
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	7 nm

Pro VII has a 22.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 4 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon Pro VII is our recommended choice as it beats the Tesla M40 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.