L20 vs L4

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking186not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency28.83no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)16 November 2023 (less than a 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 cores742411776
Core clock speed795 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed2040 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)72 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate489.6927.4
Floating-point processing power30.29 TFLOPS59.35 TFLOPS
ROPs80128
TMUs240368
Tensor Cores240368
Ray Tracing Cores6092

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
Length169 mm267 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 amount24 GB48 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1563 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth300.1 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 outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 16 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 48 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 72 Watt 275 Watt

L4 has 281.9% lower power consumption.

L20, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between L4 and L20. We've got no test results to judge.


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