NVIDIA L40 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI210

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 64GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI210 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2490MHz vs 1700MHz)

11520 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI210 's Advantages

More VRAM (64GB vs 48GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1638GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +300%

90.52 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI210

22.63 TFLOPS

L40

VS

Radeon Instinct MI210

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1600 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

64GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1638GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

104

18176

Shading Units

6656

568

TMUs

416

192

ROPs

0

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

16 MB

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

0 MPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

707.2 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

181.0 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.63 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.63 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Aldebaran

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

Aldebaran

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

CDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

6 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

58.2 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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

-

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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