NVIDIA L20 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA L20

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM L20 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 75% (2520MHz vs 1440MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

8192 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L20 +475%

59.35 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

10.32 TFLOPS

L20

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2023

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

-

92

SM Count

56

11776

Shading Units

3584

368

TMUs

224

128

ROPs

96

368

Tensor Cores

224

92

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

927.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

59.35 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

59.35 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

927.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA100

AD102

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

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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