NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA L4

VS

NVIDIA RTX A6000 NVIDIA L4

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 24GB VRAM L4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A6000's Advantages

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA L4's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (2040MHz vs 1800MHz)

Lower TDP (72W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +27%

38.71 TFLOPS

L4

30.29 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

L4

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Mar 2023

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Tesla Ada

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

795MHz

1800MHz

Boost Clock

2040MHz

2000MHz

Memory Clock

1563MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

768.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

300.1 GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

60

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

7424

336

TMUs

240

112

ROPs

80

336

Tensor Cores

240

84

RT Cores

60

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6MB

L2 Cache

48MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

163.2 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

489.6 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

30.29 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

30.29 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

473.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

AD104

-

GPU Variant

AD104-???-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

28,300 million

Transistors

35,800 million

628mm²

Die Size

294mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

72W

700W

Suggested PSU

250W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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