NVIDIA L40 CNX vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA L40 CNX

NVIDIA A10 PCIe

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L40 CNX and 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 CNX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2475MHz vs 1695MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A10 PCIe 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 CNX +187%

89.97 TFLOPS

A10 PCIe

31.24 TFLOPS

L40 CNX

VS

A10 PCIe

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1005 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

600.2GB/s

Render Config

-

142

SM Count

72

18176

Shading Units

9216

568

TMUs

288

192

ROPs

96

568

Tensor Cores

288

142

RT Cores

72

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

475.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

1406 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

488.2 GTexel/s

89.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

31.24 TFLOPS

89.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.24 TFLOPS

1406 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

976.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

150W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA102

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

GA102-890-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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