Tesla P40 Made by NVIDIA

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Question: Is Tesla P40 made by NVIDIA or Tesla (the car company)?

Answer:

Tesla P40 is an NVIDIA GPU, not from Tesla Motors.

The name is confusing because NVIDIA used the brand “Tesla” for its data-center GPU product line from 2007–2020. It has nothing to do with Tesla, Inc..

The naming:

NVIDIA Tesla P40
│      │    │
│      │    └── P40 model
│      └─────── Pascal architecture
└────────────── NVIDIA data-center GPU family

NVIDIA’s old accelerator families:

Tesla
 ├── K80   (Kepler)
 ├── M40   (Maxwell)
 ├── P40   (Pascal)   ← this one
 ├── V100  (Volta)
 └── T4    (Turing)

Later NVIDIA renamed the data-center brand:

Tesla → NVIDIA Data Center GPU

Examples:
Tesla V100
    ↓
NVIDIA A100
    ↓
NVIDIA H100
    ↓
NVIDIA H200 / B200

The P40 launched around 2016 with the Pascal generation. It was designed for AI inference, especially:

recommendation systems
speech recognition
image recognition
early deep learning inference

It has:

GPU: GP102
VRAM: 24GB GDDR5 ECC
CUDA cores: 3840
Tensor cores: none

So:

❌ Not an Elon Musk Tesla product
✅ NVIDIA Tesla P40
✅ Same NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem
✅ Can run PyTorch/CUDA (with compatible CUDA versions)
❌ Old compared with modern RTX/Ampere/Hopper cards

The “Tesla” naming was actually retired because it caused exactly this confusion with the car company.

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