NVIDIA L40 CNX vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI6

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L40 CNX and 8GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 CNX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 101% (2475MHz vs 1233MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

15872 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI6 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 CNX +1483%

89.97 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI6

5.682 TFLOPS

L40 CNX

VS

Radeon Instinct MI6

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 2016

Tesla Ada

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1005 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

2475 MHz

Boost Clock

1233 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

18176

Shading Units

2304

568

TMUs

144

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

475.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.46 GPixel/s

1406 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.6 GTexel/s

89.97 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.682 TFLOPS

89.97 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.682 TFLOPS

1406 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

355.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Ellesmere

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

4 nm

Process Size

14 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

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 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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