A30X and L40S - video card comparison

A30X

L40S

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA100

AD102

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 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

3584

18176

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

322.6

1,431

Memory type

HBM2e

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

3072 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3.2 GB/s

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

1,223 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