NVIDIA Quadro GP100 vs NVIDIA L4
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Quadro GP100 and 24GB VRAM L4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA Quadro GP100 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (732.2GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)
NVIDIA L4 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2040MHz vs 1442MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (72W vs 235W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Quadro GP100
10.34 TFLOPS
L4
+192%
30.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
Quadro
Generation
Tesla Ada(Lxx)
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1304 MHz
Base Clock
795 MHz
1442 MHz
Boost Clock
2040 MHz
715 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
24GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
192bit
732.2GB/s
Bandwidth
300.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
56
SM Count
60
3584
Shading Units
7424
224
TMUs
240
96
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
60
24 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
138.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
163.2 GPixel/s
323.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
489.6 GTexel/s
20.67 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.29 TFLOPS
10.34 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.29 TFLOPS
5.168 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
473.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
235W
TDP
72W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP100
GPU Name
AD104
-
GPU Variant
AD104-???-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
15.3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
610 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.0
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.8
