L40 CNX vs Radeon RX 5500M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking357not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency11.80no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 14AD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 October 2019 (5 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 cores140818176
Core clock speed1375 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistors6,400 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate144.81,406
Floating-point processing power4.632 TFLOPS89.97 TFLOPS
ROPs32192
TMUs88568
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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 amount4 GB24 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s864.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 October 2019 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 300 Watt

RX 5500M has 252.9% lower power consumption.

L40 CNX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5500M and L40 CNX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 5500M is a notebook card while L40 CNX is a workstation one.


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