NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA L40S and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA L40S

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA L40S

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 1% higher core clock speed: 1110 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Around 79% higher boost clock speed: 2520 MHz vs 1410 MHz
2.6x more pipelines: 18176 vs 6912
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 300 Watt vs 400 Watt
Around 20% higher maximum memory size: 48 GB vs 40 GB
Around 85% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Around 71% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 343342 vs 200574

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 Oct 2022 vs 14 May 2020
Core clock speed	1110 MHz vs 1095 MHz
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Pipelines	18176 vs 6912
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt vs 400 Watt
Maximum memory size	48 GB vs 40 GB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	343342 vs 200574

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

425.6x more texture fill rate: 609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,431 GTexel/s

Texture fill rate	609.1 GTexel/s vs 1,431 GTexel/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA L40S
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

343342

200574

Name	NVIDIA L40S	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Geekbench - OpenCL	343342	200574
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		21006
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		27823
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		51880
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		51880

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA L40S	NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Ampere
Code name	AD102	GA100
Launch date	13 Oct 2022	14 May 2020
Place in performance rating	1	6
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2520 MHz	1410 MHz
Core clock speed	1110 MHz	1095 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	18176	6912
Pixel fill rate	483.8 GPixel/s	225.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	1,431 GTexel/s	609.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	400 Watt
Transistor count	76300 million	54200 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		9.746 TFLOPS (1:2)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		77.97 TFLOPS (4:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		19.49 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt	800 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 16-pin	None
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
OpenGL	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	48 GB	40 GB
Memory bandwidth	864.0 GB/s	1555 GB/s
Memory bus width	384 bit	5120 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1215 MHz (2.4 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	HBM2e
High bandwidth memory (HBM)