NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA A10G

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NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA A10G

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 12GB VRAM A10G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2490MHz vs 1710MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A10G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +187%

90.52 TFLOPS

A10G

31.52 TFLOPS

Blender

L40 +158%

9486

A10G

3664

L40

VS

A10G

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

600.2GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

9216

568

TMUs

288

192

ROPs

96

568

Tensor Cores

288

142

RT Cores

72

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

492.5 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

31.52 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.52 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

985.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA102

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-890-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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