A100X and L40S - video card comparison
A100X
L40S
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA100
AD102
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2021
October 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1440 MHz
2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
18176
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
622.1
1,431
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
80 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
5120 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
3.2 GB/s
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
2,039 GB/s
864.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.0
8.9
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
Shader Model
N/A
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3