L40G vs Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking373not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency14.71no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega Kaby Lake-GAD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2018 (6 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 cores128018176
Core clock speed931 MHz1005 MHz
Boost clock speed1011 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1,406
Floating-point processing powerno data89.97 TFLOPS
ROPsno data192
TMUsno data568
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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 amount4 GB24 GB
Memory bus widthno data384 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data864.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 300 Watt

RX Vega M GL / 870 has 361.5% lower power consumption.

L40G, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 and L40G. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870 is a notebook card while L40G is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL / 870
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