NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

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NVIDIA L40S NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40S and 12GB VRAM RTX A2000 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 110% (2520MHz vs 1200MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

14848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 12 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (70W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +1046%

91.61 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 12 GB

7.987 TFLOPS

L40S

VS

RTX A2000 12 GB

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

562 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

26

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

3328

568

TMUs

104

192

ROPs

48

568

Tensor Cores

104

142

RT Cores

26

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA106

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

70W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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