NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

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NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM L40 and a Desktop platform GPU: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe 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 73% (2490MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

14592 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +777%

90.52 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

Blender

L40 +365%

9486

A30 PCIe

2036

L40

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

3584

568

TMUs

224

192

ROPs

96

568

Tensor Cores

224

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA100

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

165W

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

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

8.0

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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