L40S vs Radeon Instinct MI100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated65
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.20
ArchitectureCDNA 1.0 (2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameArcturusAD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date16 November 2020 (4 years 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 cores768018176
Core clock speed1000 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1502 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors50,000 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)300 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate721.01,431
Floating-point processing power23.07 TFLOPS91.61 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs480568
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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeHBM2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB48 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.7
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL2.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 November 2020 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm

L40S has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Instinct MI100 and L40S. We've got no test results to judge.


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