NVIDIA L4 vs NVIDIA Tesla M40

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NVIDIA L4 NVIDIA Tesla M40

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 12GB VRAM Tesla M40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 83% (2040MHz vs 1112MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (300.1GB/s vs 288.4GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4 +343%

30.29 TFLOPS

Tesla M40

6.832 TFLOPS

L4

VS

Tesla M40

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Nov 2015

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla Maxwell

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

948 MHz

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

1112 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

300.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.4GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

3072

240

TMUs

192

80

ROPs

96

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

106.8 GPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

213.5 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.832 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

213.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM200

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-895-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

72W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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