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.

Apple A8

NVIDIA L40

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
Geekbench - OpenCL		331157

Compare specifications (specs)

	Apple A8	NVIDIA L40
Essentials
Launch date	9 Sep 2014	13 Oct 2022
Place in performance rating	not rated	2
Architecture		Ada Lovelace
Code name		AD102
Technical info
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
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
Display Connectors		4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
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
DirectX		12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL		3.0
OpenGL		4.6
Shader Model		6.7
Vulkan