L40G vs A100 PCIe 80 GB

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Primary details

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

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ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date28 June 2021 (3 years ago)13 October 2022 (2 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 cores691218176
Core clock speed1065 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1410 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate609.11,406
Floating-point processing power19.49 TFLOPS89.97 TFLOPS
ROPs160192
TMUs432568
Tensor Cores432568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPS1x 16-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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount80 GB24 GB
Memory bus width5120 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1593 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth2,039 GB/s864.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA8.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2021 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 80 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 300 Watt

A100 PCIe 80 GB has a 233.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 20% lower power consumption.

L40G, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between A100 PCIe 80 GB and L40G. We've got no test results to judge.


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