NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA L40 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L40

  • Around 87% higher pipelines: 18176 vs 9728
  • Around 7% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 320 Watt
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 61% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective
  • Around 39% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 332005 vs 239144
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 18176 vs 9728
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt vs 320 Watt
Maximum memory size 48 GB vs 16 GB
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 332005 vs 239144

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

  • 3x more core clock speed: 2205 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 2490 MHz
  • 538.5x more texture fill rate: 761.5 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
Core clock speed 2205 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 2505 MHz vs 2490 MHz
Texture fill rate 761.5 GTexel/s vs 1,414 GTexel/s
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 5 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA L40
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
332005
239144
Name NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
Geekbench - OpenCL 332005 239144
PassMark - G2D Mark 1233
PassMark - G3D Mark 34627
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 28260
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 722.769
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 72.795
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 272.641

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA L40 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
Code name AD102 AD103
Launch date 13 Oct 2022 20 Sep 2022
Place in performance rating 2 7

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2490 MHz 2505 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 2205 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 4 nm
Pipelines 18176 9728
Pixel fill rate 478.1 GPixel/s 280.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 1,414 GTexel/s 761.5 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 300 Watt 320 Watt
Transistor count 76300 million 45900 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 761.5 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 48.74 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 48.74 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 4x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Triple-slot
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches 310 mm, 12.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 700 Watt 700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 1x 16-pin
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches
Height 61 mm, 2.4 inches

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 48 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 864.0 GB/s 716.8 GB/s
Memory bus width 384 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1400 MHz, 22.4 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X