NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

VS

NVIDIA L40S

NVIDIA A10 PCIe

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40S and 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 49% (2520MHz vs 1695MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 24GB)

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)

L40S +193%

91.61 TFLOPS

A10 PCIe

31.24 TFLOPS

Blender

L40S +268%

9239

A10 PCIe

2505

L40S

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

1110 MHz

Base Clock

885 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

48GB

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

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

488.2 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

31.24 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.24 TFLOPS

1431 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

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

609 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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