L40 vs Quadro RTX 6000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking65not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.27no data
Power efficiency13.02no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU102AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 August 2018 (6 years ago)13 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$6,299 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores460818176
Core clock speed1440 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz2490 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate509.81,414
Floating-point processing power16.31 TFLOPS90.52 TFLOPS
ROPs96192
TMUs288568
Tensor Cores576568
Ray Tracing Cores72142

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 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 width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth672.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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.

RTX 6000 148952
L40 332005
+123%

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.

RTX 6000 126987
L40 232005
+82.7%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 August 2018 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 6000 has 15.4% lower power consumption.

L40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 6000 and L40. We've got no test results to judge.


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