Tesla M40

Maxwell 2.0Tesla M SeriesData CenterServerGDDR52015NVIDIA

Key Metrics

Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Launch Date
2015-11-10
CUDA Cores
3,072
Memory
12 GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth
288.4 GB/s
TDP/TBP
250 W
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Why It Mattered

Tesla M40 is a Tesla M Series accelerator from the Maxwell 2.0 generation. Its historical context is data-center deployment rather than gaming, so form factor, memory capacity, interconnect, virtualization features, and server compatibility are the details that make this entry useful.

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Sources

Sources reviewed: 2026-08-13

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Primary / manufacturer sources

  1. New NVIDIA Hyperscale Accelerators Boost Machine Learning Throughput for Web Data CentersOfficial November 10, 2015 introduction of Tesla M4 and the 12 GB Tesla M40Open source
  2. Accelerating Hyperscale Data Center Applications with NVIDIA M40 and M4 GPUsOfficial M4/M40 memory, memory-interface, and power comparisonOpen source
  3. NVIDIA Tesla M40 GPU Accelerator 12 GB data sheetOfficial 12 GB memory and 250 W maximum-power specificationsOpen source

Independent reference sources

  1. TechPowerUp GPU SpecsModel-level specification reference for this GPU entryOpen source

Derived datasets and spec dumps

  1. RightNow GPU DatabaseOpen data inventory used for bulk normalization and cross-checking Derived/spec-dump source. Treat as a reference dataset, not independent historical verification.Open source

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