GRID A100A and L40 - video card comparison
GRID A100A
L40
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GA100
AD102
Market segment
Workstation
Desktop
Release date
May 2020
October 2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
1005 MHz
2490 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
4 nm
Number of transistors
54,200 million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
6912
18176
Power consumption (TDP)
400 Watt
300 Watt
Texture fill rate
434.2
1,414
Memory type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
48 GB
Memory bus width
6144 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
2.4 GB/s
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1,866 GB/s
864.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.0
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3