RTX A5000 and L40 CNX - video card comparison

RTX A5000

L40 CNX

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GA102

AD102

Market segment

Workstation

Desktop

Release date

April 2021

October 2022

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

1695 MHz

2475 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

4 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8192

18176

Power consumption (TDP)

230 Watt

300 Watt

Texture fill rate

433.9

1,406

Memory type

GDDR6

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

24 GB

24 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

16 GB/s

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

768.0 GB/s

864.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.7

6.7

Vulkan

1.3

1.3