NVIDIA L4 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA L4 and AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L4

  • Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 2040 MHz vs 1546 MHz
  • Around 24% higher texture fill rate: 489.6 GTexel/s vs 395.80 GTexel/s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 14 nm
  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 72 Watt vs 295 Watt
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 8 GB
Boost clock speed 2040 MHz vs 1546 MHz
Texture fill rate 489.6 GTexel/s vs 395.80 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 72 Watt vs 295 Watt
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1247 MHz vs 795 MHz
  • Around 7% higher pipelines: 8192 vs 7680
  • Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1890 MHz vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
  • Around 45% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 204168 vs 140684
  • 3.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 795 vs 256
  • Around 80% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 14188 vs 7884
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1247 MHz vs 795 MHz
Pipelines 8192 vs 7680
Memory clock speed 1890 MHz vs 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 204168 vs 140684
PassMark - G2D Mark 795 vs 256
PassMark - G3D Mark 14188 vs 7884

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA L4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
140684
204168
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
256
795
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
7884
14188
Name NVIDIA L4 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
Geekbench - OpenCL 140684 204168
PassMark - G2D Mark 256 795
PassMark - G3D Mark 7884 14188
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 195.478
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2129.009
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 14.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 129.271
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 1328.033
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14744
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1671

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA L4 AMD Radeon RX Vega 64

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace GCN 5.0
Code name AD104 Vega 10
Place in performance rating 185 188
Design Radeon RX Vega Series
Launch date 7 August 2017
Launch price (MSRP) $499
Price now $449.99
Type Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 41.07

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2040 MHz 1546 MHz
Core clock speed 795 MHz 1247 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 14 nm
Pipelines 7680 8192
Pixel fill rate 163.2 GPixel/s 98.90 GP/s
Texture fill rate 489.6 GTexel/s 395.80 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 72 Watt 295 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million 12,500 million
Compute units 64
Floating-point performance 12.7 TFLOPs
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 840 GFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 26.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 13.4 TFLOPs
Render output units 64
Stream Processors 4096
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 279 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 250 Watt 750 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 483.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 2048 bit
Memory clock speed 1563 MHz, 12.5 Gbps effective 1890 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