L40S vs A2

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated65
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.20
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA107AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 November 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 cores128018176
Core clock speed1440 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate70.801,431
Floating-point processing power4.531 TFLOPS91.61 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs40568
Tensor Cores40568
Ray Tracing Cores10142

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB48 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1563 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth200.1 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.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

A2 34634
L40S 345558
+898%

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

A2 34563
L40S 228143
+560%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2021 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 300 Watt

A2 has 400% lower power consumption.

L40S, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between A2 and L40S. We've got no test results to judge.


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