L40 CNX vs Quadro NVS 280 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1489not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.11no data
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV34 B1AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date28 October 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 speed275 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors45 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)13 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate1.1001,406
Floating-point processing powerno data89.97 TFLOPS
ROPs2192
TMUs4568
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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 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 Connectors1x DMS-591x 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 28 October 2003 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 24 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 13 Watt 300 Watt

NVS 280 PCI has 2207.7% lower power consumption.

L40 CNX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro NVS 280 PCI and L40 CNX. We've got no test results to judge.


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