NVIDIA A2 vs NVIDIA L40

VS

NVIDIA A2 NVIDIA L40

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 16GB VRAM A2 and a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM L40 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2490MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

16896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

L40 +1897%

90.52 TFLOPS

A2

VS

L40

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Oct 2022

Quadro

Generation

Tesla Ada

Desktop

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

2490 MHz

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

142

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

18176

40

TMUs

568

32

ROPs

192

40

Tensor Cores

568

10

RT Cores

142

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

96 MB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

478.1 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1414 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

90.52 TFLOPS

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

90.52 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1414 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

AD102

-

GPU Variant

AD102-895-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

Unknown

Transistors

76.3 billion

Unknown

Die Size

608 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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