NVIDIA GRID A100A vs NVIDIA L40S

VS

NVIDIA GRID A100A

NVIDIA L40S

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages

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

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)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID A100A

13.89 TFLOPS

L40S +559%

91.61 TFLOPS

GRID A100A

VS

L40S

Graphics Card

May 2020

Release Date

Oct 2022

GRID

Generation

Tesla Ada

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1005 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

6144bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1866GB/s

Bandwidth

864.0GB/s

Render Config

-

108

SM Count

142

6912

Shading Units

18176

432

TMUs

568

192

ROPs

192

432

Tensor Cores

568

-

RT Cores

142

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

193.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

434.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1431 GTexel/s

55.57 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

91.61 TFLOPS

13.89 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.61 TFLOPS

6.947 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1431 GFLOPS

Board Design

400W

TDP

300W

800 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

AD102

-

GPU Variant

AD102-???-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.9

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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