Quadro RTX 8000 and L40 - video card comparison

Quadro RTX 8000

L40

Architecture

Turing (2018−2021)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

TU102

AD102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

August 2018

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1770 MHz

2490 MHz

Core clock speed

1395 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

18,600 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4608

18176

Power consumption (TDP)

260 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

509.8

1,414

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

48 GB

48 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

14000 MHz

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

672.0 GB/s

864.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

7.5

8.9

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3