NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA GRID A100A

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NVIDIA L40S NVIDIA GRID A100A

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40S and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 151% (2520MHz vs 1005MHz)

11264 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 400W)

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +559%

91.61 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

13.89 TFLOPS

L40S

VS

GRID A100A

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

May 2020

Tesla Ada

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1005 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

6144bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1866GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

108

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

6912

568

TMUs

432

192

ROPs

192

568

Tensor Cores

432

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

193.0 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

434.2 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

55.57 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.89 TFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.947 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA100

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

400W

700 W

Suggested PSU

800 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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