NVIDIA L4 vs NVIDIA Tesla K20c

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NVIDIA L4 NVIDIA Tesla K20c

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 5GB VRAM Tesla K20c to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L4 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2040MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 5GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (300.1GB/s vs 208.0GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (72W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L4 +759%

30.29 TFLOPS

Tesla K20c

3.524 TFLOPS

L4

VS

Tesla K20c

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Nov 2012

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

-

2040 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1300 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

5GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

320bit

300.1GB/s

Bandwidth

208.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7424

Shading Units

2496

240

TMUs

208

80

ROPs

40

240

Tensor Cores

-

60

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

48 MB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

163.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.71 GPixel/s

489.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

146.8 GTexel/s

30.29 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.29 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.524 TFLOPS

473.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1175 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GK110

AD104-???-A1

GPU Variant

GK110-885-KA-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

7.08 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

561 mm²

Board Design

72W

TDP

225W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

8.9

CUDA

3.5

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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