NVIDIA L4 vs NVIDIA Tesla K8

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NVIDIA L4 NVIDIA Tesla K8

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 8GB VRAM Tesla K8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 152% (2040MHz vs 811MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (300.1GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

5888 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4 +1115%

30.29 TFLOPS

Tesla K8

2.491 TFLOPS

L4

VS

Tesla K8

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795MHz

Base Clock

693MHz

2040MHz

Boost Clock

811MHz

1563MHz

Memory Clock

1250MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

300.1 GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0 GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

1536

240

TMUs

128

80

ROPs

32

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48MB

L2 Cache

512KB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.95 GPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.8 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.491 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GK104

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35,800 million

Transistors

3,540 million

294mm²

Die Size

294mm²

Board Design

72W

TDP

100W

250W

Suggested PSU

300W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.9

CUDA

3.0

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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