L20: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

L20 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.37% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started L20 sales 16 November 2023. This is an Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 5 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 48 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 864.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 16-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about L20: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking188
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency8.89of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date16 November 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

L20's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of L20's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores11776of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1440 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed2520 MHzof 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors76,300 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)275 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate927.4of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power59.35 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs128of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs368of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores368of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores92of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L1 Cache11.5 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache96 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of L20 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on L20: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount48 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width384 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth864.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Resizable BAR+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on L20. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API and SDK support

APIs supported by L20, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9
DLSS+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of L20. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

L20
30.37

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

L20 13429

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

L20 270874

Gaming performance

Let's see how good L20 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

L20's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


Quadro GP100 102.11
RTX A2000 100.43
L20 100

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to L20 is Radeon PRO W7500, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

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