NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 98% (2490MHz vs 1260MHz)
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
10752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L40
+383%
90.52 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Mar 2022
Tesla Ada
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
585 MHz
2490 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
864.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
142
SM Count
58
18176
Shading Units
7424
568
TMUs
232
192
ROPs
96
568
Tensor Cores
232
142
RT Cores
58
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
96 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
478.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
90.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
90.52 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
1414 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
80W
700 W
Suggested PSU
-
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GA103
AD102-895-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
4 nm
Process Size
8 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
22 billion
608 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.8
