NVIDIA L4 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA L4 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/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 Vega 56

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L4

Around 39% higher boost clock speed: 2040 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Around 48% higher texture fill rate: 489.6 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
2.1x more pipelines: 7680 vs 3584
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 72 Watt vs 210 Watt
3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB

Boost clock speed	2040 MHz vs 1471 MHz
Texture fill rate	489.6 GTexel/s vs 330.00 GTexel/s
Pipelines	7680 vs 3584
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	72 Watt vs 210 Watt
Maximum memory size	24 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Around 45% higher core clock speed: 1156 MHz vs 795 MHz
Around 2% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
Around 17% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 163998 vs 140723
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 770 vs 196
2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13146 vs 6006

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1156 MHz vs 795 MHz
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	163998 vs 140723
PassMark - G2D Mark	770 vs 196
PassMark - G3D Mark	13146 vs 6006

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA L4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

140723

163998

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

196

770

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

6006

13146

Name	NVIDIA L4	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Geekbench - OpenCL	140723	163998
PassMark - G2D Mark	196	770
PassMark - G3D Mark	6006	13146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		184.405
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1765.06
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		12.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		79.32
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1022.925
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		14462
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1502

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA L4	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	GCN 5.0
Code name	AD104	Vega 10
Place in performance rating	228	227
Design		Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date		14 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2040 MHz	1471 MHz
Core clock speed	795 MHz	1156 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	7680	3584
Pixel fill rate	163.2 GPixel/s	94.00 GP/s
Texture fill rate	489.6 GTexel/s	330.00 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	72 Watt	210 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	12,500 million
Compute units		56
Floating-point performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		21 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		10.5 TFLOPs
Render output units		64
Stream Processors		3584
Texture Units		256
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	169 mm, 6.7 inches	267 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt	650 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	2x 8-pin
Width	56 mm, 2.2 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	24 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	300.1 GB/s	410 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	2048 bit
Memory clock speed	1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore