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

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GPU 1: Apple A8
GPU 2: NVIDIA L40

Name Apple A8 NVIDIA L40
Geekbench - OpenCL 332005

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

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