L4 vs GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
L4 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 103% (2040MHz vs 1005MHz)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (72W vs 400W)
GRID A100A 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L4
+118%
30290
GRID A100A
13890
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
May 2020
Tesla Ada(Lxx)
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
795 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
2040 MHz
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
192bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
300.1GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
60
SM Count
108
7424
Shading Units
6912
240
TMUs
432
80
ROPs
192
240
Tensor Cores
432
60
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
163.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
489.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
30.29 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
30.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
473.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
72W
TDP
400W
250 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
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
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
6.8
Shader Model
N/A
