NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA Quadro CX
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 1536MB VRAM Quadro CX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2490MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)
17984 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro CX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L40
+19493%
90.52 TFLOPS
Quadro CX
0.462 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Nov 2008
Tesla Ada
Generation
Quadro CX
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
-
2490 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
384bit
864.0GB/s
Bandwidth
76.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
142
SM Count
24
18176
Shading Units
192
568
TMUs
64
192
ROPs
24
568
Tensor Cores
-
142
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
96 MB
L2 Cache
192 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
478.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.45 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.53 GTexel/s
90.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
90.52 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
462.3 GFLOPS
1414 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.79 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
150W
700 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GT200B
AD102-895-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
55 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
608 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.3
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
