NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB vs NVIDIA L40

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB and NVIDIA L40 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB

  • Around 49% higher core clock speed: 1095 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • 566x more texture fill rate: 800.3 GTexel/s vs 1,414 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 5 nm
  • Around 67% higher maximum memory size: 80 GB vs 48 GB
Core clock speed 1095 MHz vs 735 MHz
Texture fill rate 800.3 GTexel/s vs 1,414 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 5 nm
Maximum memory size 80 GB vs 48 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L40

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
  • Around 42% higher boost clock speed: 2490 MHz vs 1755 MHz
  • Around 25% higher pipelines: 18176 vs 14592
  • Around 17% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 41% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz, 3.2 Gbps effective
  • Around 3% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 289621 vs 281732
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 Oct 2022 vs 22 Mar 2022
Boost clock speed 2490 MHz vs 1755 MHz
Pipelines 18176 vs 14592
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 350 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1593 MHz, 3.2 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 289621 vs 281732

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA L40

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
281732
289621
Name NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB NVIDIA L40
Geekbench - OpenCL 281732 289621

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB NVIDIA L40

Essentials

Architecture Hopper Ada Lovelace
Code name GH100 AD102
Launch date 22 Mar 2022 13 Oct 2022
Place in performance rating 5 3

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1755 MHz 2490 MHz
Core clock speed 1095 MHz 735 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 5 nm
Pipelines 14592 18176
Pixel fill rate 42.12 GPixel/s 478.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 800.3 GTexel/s 1,414 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 350 Watt 300 Watt
Transistor count 80000 million 76300 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Dual-slot
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 268 mm, 10.6 inches 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 750 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 1x 16-pin
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches 111 mm, 4.4 inches

API support

OpenCL 3.0 3.0
DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL 4.6
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 80 GB 48 GB
Memory bandwidth 2,039 GB/s 864.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 5120 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 1593 MHz, 3.2 Gbps effective 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective
Memory type HBM2e GDDR6