NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

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We compared a Professional market GPU: 48GB VRAM L40S and a Desktop platform GPU: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (864.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

17936 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +14628%

91.61 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

L40S

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2008

Tesla Ada

Generation

GeForce 200

Professional

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

240

568

TMUs

80

192

ROPs

32

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

48 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GT200

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

65 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

236W

700 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

1.3

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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