Apple A8X vs NVIDIA L40G

Comparative analysis of Apple A8X and NVIDIA L40G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L40G

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 2272x more pipelines: 18176 vs 8
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 20 nm
Launch date 13 Oct 2022 vs 16 Oct 2014
Core clock speed 1005 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines 18176 vs 8
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 20 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A8X NVIDIA L40G

Essentials

Launch date 16 Oct 2014 13 Oct 2022
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Architecture Ada Lovelace
Code name AD102

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 20 nm 5 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 230.4 GFLOPS
Pipelines 8 18176
Render output units 32
Boost clock speed 2475 MHz
Pixel fill rate 475.2 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 1,406 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt
Transistor count 76300 million

Memory

Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB/s 864.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 384 bit
Memory type LPDDR3-1600 GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x 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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