L40 vs GeForce RTX 4070

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking20not rated
Place by popularity32not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation60.23no data
Power efficiency23.96no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date12 April 2023 (1 year ago)13 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores588818176
Core clock speed1920 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed2475 MHz2490 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate455.41,414
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPS90.52 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs184568
Tensor Cores184568
Ray Tracing Cores46142

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
Length240 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB48 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth504.2 GB/s864.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 1.4a4x 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 Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 April 2023 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 4070 has an age advantage of 5 months, and 50% lower power consumption.

L40, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 and L40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4070 is a desktop card while L40 is a workstation one.


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