L40 vs Iris Xe Graphics 80EU
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 62 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 13.79 |
| Architecture | Generation 12.2 (2022−2023) | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) |
| GPU code name | Raptor Lake GT1 | AD102 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 4 January 2023 (3 years ago) | 13 October 2022 (3 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 640 | 18176 |
| Core clock speed | 300 MHz | 735 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1450 MHz | 2490 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 76,300 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 58.00 | 1,414 |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.856 TFLOPS | 90.52 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 20 | 192 |
| TMUs | 40 | 568 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 568 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 142 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 17.8 MB |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 96 MB |
| L3 Cache | 12 MB | no data |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | Ring Bus | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 267 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 48 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 384 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 2250 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 864.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | 6.7 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 4 January 2023 | 13 October 2022 |
| Chip lithography | 10 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | 300 Watt |
Iris Xe Graphics 80EU has an age advantage of 2 months, and 1900% lower power consumption.
L40, on the other hand, has a 150% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics 80EU and L40. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics 80EU is a notebook graphics card while L40 is a workstation one.
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