L40 and A100 PCIe 40 GB - video card comparison
L40
A100 PCIe 40 GB
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
AD102
GA100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2022
June 2020
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 16-pin
8-pin EPS
Boost clock speed
2490 MHz
1410 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
4 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
76,300 million
54,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
18176
6912
Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
1,414
609.1
Memory type
GDDR6
HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount
48 GB
40 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
5120 Bit
Memory clock speed
18 GB/s
2.4 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
864.0 GB/s
1,555 GB/s
Display Connectors
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
CUDA
8.9
8.0
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
Shader Model
6.7
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
N/A