H100 PCIe 96 GB vs L4

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking190not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.46no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Hopper (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD104GH100
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores742416896
Core clock speed795 MHz1665 MHz
Boost clock speed2040 MHz1837 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million80,000 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)72 Watt700 Watt
Texture fill rate489.6969.9
Floating-point processing power30.29 TFLOPS62.08 TFLOPS
ROPs8024
TMUs240528
Tensor Cores240528
Ray Tracing Cores60no data

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 5.0 x16
Length169 mm268 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR6HBM3
Maximum RAM amount24 GB96 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit5120 Bit
Memory clock speed1563 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth300.1 GB/s1,681 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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)N/A
Shader Model6.8N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.3N/A
CUDA8.99.0

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 96 GB
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 72 Watt 700 Watt

L4 has 872.2% lower power consumption.

H100 PCIe 96 GB, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between L4 and H100 PCIe 96 GB. We've got no test results to judge.


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