NVIDIA L4 vs AMD Radeon RX 6800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA L4 and AMD Radeon RX 6800 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA L4

AMD Radeon RX 6800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L4

2x more pipelines: 7680 vs 3840
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
3.5x lower typical power consumption: 72 Watt vs 250 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
Around 11% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 140480 vs 126207

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	7680 vs 3840
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	72 Watt vs 250 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	140480 vs 126207

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800

2.1x more core clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 795 MHz
Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 2105 MHz vs 2040 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 505.2 GTexel/s vs 489.6 GTexel/s
Around 28% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1700 MHz vs 795 MHz
Boost clock speed	2105 MHz vs 2040 MHz
Texture fill rate	505.2 GTexel/s vs 489.6 GTexel/s
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA L4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

140480

126207

Name	NVIDIA L4	AMD Radeon RX 6800
Geekbench - OpenCL	140480	126207
PassMark - G3D Mark		22316
PassMark - G2D Mark		972
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		432.118
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		41.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		383.037
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2280.457
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3373
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16162
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3373
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		16306

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA L4	AMD Radeon RX 6800
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 21
Place in performance rating	78	75
Launch date		28 Oct 2020
Launch price (MSRP)		$579
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2040 MHz	2105 MHz
Core clock speed	795 MHz	1700 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	7680	3840
Pixel fill rate	163.2 GPixel/s	202.1 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	489.6 GTexel/s	505.2 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	72 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	26800 million
Compute units		60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1010 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		32.33 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		16.17 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	169 mm, 6.7 inches	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	56 mm, 2.2 inches	120 mm (4.7 inches)
Height		40 mm (1.6 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	300.1 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6