Apple A9 vs NVIDIA L40G

Comparative analysis of Apple A9 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) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 55% higher core clock speed: 1005 MHz vs 650 MHz
  • 3029.3x more pipelines: 18176 vs 6
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 16 nm
Launch date 13 Oct 2022 vs 9 Sep 2015
Core clock speed 1005 MHz vs 650 MHz
Pipelines 18176 vs 6
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 16 nm

Compare specifications (specs)

Apple A9 NVIDIA L40G

Essentials

Launch date 9 Sep 2015 13 Oct 2022
Place in performance rating not rated not rated
Architecture Ada Lovelace
Code name AD102

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 1005 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 5 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 249.6 GFLOPS
Pipelines 6 18176
Render output units 24
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 LPDDR4-3200 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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