NVIDIA L40 vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 4GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI8 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2490MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)

14080 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Instinct MI8 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40 +1004%

90.52 TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI8

8.192 TFLOPS

L40

VS

Radeon Instinct MI8

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

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

2490 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

64

18176

Shading Units

4096

568

TMUs

256

192

ROPs

64

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

96 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

478.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

1414 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

256.0 GTexel/s

90.52 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

8.192 TFLOPS

90.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.192 TFLOPS

1414 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Fiji

AD102-895-A1

GPU Variant

Fiji XT CA (215-0862120)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

8.9 billion

608 mm²

Die Size

596 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

8.9

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.5

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