L4: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

L4 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 29.88% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started L4 sales 21 March 2023. This is an Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 24 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.56 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 300.1 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 169 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 72 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about L4: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking190
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency28.45of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

L4's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of L4's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores7424of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed795 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Boost clock speed2040 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors35,800 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)72 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate489.6of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power30.29 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs80of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs240of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores240of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores60of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of L4 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length169 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on L4: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width192 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1563 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth300.1 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on L4. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API compatibility

APIs supported by L4, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.8
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of L4. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

L4 29.88

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

L4 11518

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.

L4 140668

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.

L4 116827

Gaming performance

Let's see how good L4 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

L4's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro M6000 102.07
Tesla P40 102.01
Quadro P4000 100.94
L4 100
Tesla T4 93.27
RTX A1000 93.04

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to L4 is Radeon Pro 5700, which is faster by 3% and higher by 10 positions in our ranking.

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Community ratings

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