L40S vs Tesla T40 24 GB

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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
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU102AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release dateno data13 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 cores460818176
Core clock speed1305 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1560 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate449.31,431
Floating-point processing power14.38 TFLOPS91.61 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 speed1625 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth624.0 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 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 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 260 Watt 300 Watt

Tesla T40 24 GB has 15.4% lower power consumption.

L40S, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla T40 24 GB and L40S. We've got no test results to judge.


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