NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 62% (2490MHz vs 1537MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
16128 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L40
+1337%
90.52 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Mobile
6.296 TFLOPS
Blender
L40
+577%
3901
RTX A500 Mobile
576
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Mar 2022
Tesla Ada
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
832 MHz
2490 MHz
Boost Clock
1537 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
864.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
142
SM Count
16
18176
Shading Units
2048
568
TMUs
64
192
ROPs
32
568
Tensor Cores
64
142
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
96 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
478.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
49.18 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
98.37 GTexel/s
90.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.296 TFLOPS
90.52 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.296 TFLOPS
1414 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
98.37 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
30W
700 W
Suggested PSU
-
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GA107S
AD102-895-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
4 nm
Process Size
8 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
608 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
6.8
