NVIDIA L20 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

VS

NVIDIA L20

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM L20 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L20 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 107% (2520MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

9728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L20 +1091%

59.35 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

L20

VS

GeForce GTX 980

Graphics Card

Nov 2023

Release Date

Sep 2014

Tesla Ada

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1216 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

92

SM Count

-

11776

Shading Units

2048

368

TMUs

128

ROPs

64

368

Tensor Cores

-

92

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

96 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

77.82 GPixel/s

927.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

155.6 GTexel/s

59.35 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

59.35 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.981 TFLOPS

927.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

165W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GM204

AD102

GPU Variant

GM204-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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