NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA A2

VS

NVIDIA L40S

NVIDIA A2

We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM L40S and a Desktop platform GPU: 16GB VRAM A2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1770MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

16896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +1921%

91.61 TFLOPS

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

Blender

L40S +924%

9239

A2

902

L40S

VS

A2

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Nov 2021

Tesla Ada

Generation

Quadro

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1770 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

200.1GB/s

Render Config

-

142

SM Count

10

18176

Shading Units

1280

568

TMUs

40

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

40

142

RT Cores

10

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.64 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.80 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.531 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.531 TFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

70.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA107

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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