Apple A8 vs NVIDIA L40
Comparative analysis of Apple A8 and NVIDIA L40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L40
- Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
- Around 38% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 533 MHz
- 4544x more pipelines: 18176 vs 4
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 20 nm
Launch date | 13 Oct 2022 vs 9 Sep 2014 |
Core clock speed | 735 MHz vs 533 MHz |
Pipelines | 18176 vs 4 |
Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm vs 20 nm |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: Apple A8
GPU 2: NVIDIA L40
Name | Apple A8 | NVIDIA L40 |
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Geekbench - OpenCL | 332005 |
Compare specifications (specs)
Apple A8 | NVIDIA L40 | |
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Essentials |
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Launch date | 9 Sep 2014 | 13 Oct 2022 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 2 |
Architecture | Ada Lovelace | |
Code name | AD102 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 533 MHz | 735 MHz |
Manufacturing process technology | 20 nm | 5 nm |
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance | 136.4 GFLOPS | |
Pipelines | 4 | 18176 |
Render output units | 16 | |
Boost clock speed | 2490 MHz | |
Pixel fill rate | 478.1 GPixel/s | |
Texture fill rate | 1,414 GTexel/s | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 300 Watt | |
Transistor count | 76300 million | |
Memory |
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Memory bandwidth | 12.8 GB/s | 864.0 GB/s |
Memory bus width | 64 bit | 384 bit |
Memory type | LPDDR3-1600 | GDDR6 |
Maximum RAM amount | 48 GB | |
Memory clock speed | 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Form factor | Dual-slot | |
Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
Length | 267 mm, 10.5 inches | |
Recommended system power (PSU) | 700 Watt | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin | |
Width | 111 mm, 4.4 inches | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
OpenCL | 3.0 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
Shader Model | 6.7 | |
Vulkan |