L4 vs Data Center GPU Flex 170

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated186
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.79
ArchitectureGeneration 12.7 (2022−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameDG2-512AD104
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date24 August 2022 (2 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores40967424
Core clock speed1950 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed2050 MHz2040 MHz
Number of transistors21,700 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)150 Watt72 Watt
Texture fill rate524.8489.6
Floating-point processing power16.79 TFLOPS30.29 TFLOPS
ROPs12880
TMUs256240
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Cores3260

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
Lengthno data169 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pinNone

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 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1563 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 GB/s300.1 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0No outputs
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 Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 August 2022 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 6 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 150 Watt 72 Watt

L4 has an age advantage of 6 months, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 108.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Data Center GPU Flex 170 and L4. We've got no test results to judge.


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