RTX A5500 vs L40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM RTX A5500 and 48GB VRAM L40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A5500 's Advantages
Lower TDP (230W vs 300W)
L40 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2490MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
7936 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5500
34100
L40
+165%
90520
Blender
RTX A5500
+10%
4316
L40
3901
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Oct 2022
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Tesla Ada
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1080 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2490 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
80
SM Count
142
10240
Shading Units
18176
320
TMUs
568
96
ROPs
192
320
Tensor Cores
568
80
RT Cores
142
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
159.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
478.1 GPixel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
34.10 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
90.52 TFLOPS
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
90.52 TFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1414 GFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
300W
550 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
AD102
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GPU Variant
AD102-895-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
4 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
608 mm²
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
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
