L40 CNX vs Quadro FX 3000G

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV35AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date22 July 2003 (21 year ago)13 October 2022 (2 years 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 coresno data18176
Core clock speed400 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors135 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2001,406
Floating-point processing powerno data89.97 TFLOPS
ROPs4192
TMUs8568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molex1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed425 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth27.2 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2003 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 4 nm

L40 CNX has an age advantage of 19 years, a 9500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 3000G and L40 CNX. We've got no test results to judge.


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