NVIDIA L40 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

VS

NVIDIA L40

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 66% (2490MHz vs 1502MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)

10496 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +292%

90.52 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI100

23.07 TFLOPS

L40

VS

Radeon Instinct MI100

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2020

Tesla Ada

Generation

Radeon Instinct

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

1502 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

120

142

SM Count

-

18176

Shading Units

7680

568

TMUs

480

192

ROPs

64

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.13 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

721.0 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

184.6 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.07 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.54 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

300W

700 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Arcturus

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

Arcturus XL

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

CDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

7 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

25.6 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

750 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

N/A

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