NVIDIA L4 vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

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NVIDIA L4 NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB

AI GPU We compared a Professional market GPU: 24GB VRAM L4 and a GPU: 80GB VRAM A100 SXM4 80 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2040MHz vs 1410MHz)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 400W)

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB 's Advantages

More VRAM (80GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (2039GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4 +55%

30.29 TFLOPS

A100 SXM4 80 GB

19.49 TFLOPS

L4

VS

A100 SXM4 80 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Nov 2020

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Professional

Type

AI GPU

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

1275 MHz

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1593 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

80GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

192bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

300.1GB/s

Bandwidth

2039GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

6912

240

TMUs

432

80

ROPs

160

240

Tensor Cores

432

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

40 MB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA100

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

72W

TDP

400W

250 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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