NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA GRID K260Q

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NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA GRID K260Q

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 2GB VRAM GRID K260Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2490MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

16640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID K260Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +3854%

90.52 TFLOPS

GRID K260Q

2.289 TFLOPS

L40

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GRID K260Q

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2013

Tesla Ada

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

1536

568

TMUs

128

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

96 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.84 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.36 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.289 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GK104

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

225W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

-

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

3.0

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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