NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA L40S NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM L40S and a Desktop platform GPU: 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2520MHz vs 1695MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)

16896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +2011%

91.61 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe

4.339 TFLOPS

L40S

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

10

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

1280

568

TMUs

40

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

40

142

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA107

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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