L40: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
L40 provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 50.81% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started L40 sales 13 October 2022. This is a high-end Ada Lovelace architecture desktop card based on 4 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 300 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about L40: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 62 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 13.64 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | |
| GPU code name | AD102 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 13 October 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
L40's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of L40's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 18176 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 735 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 2490 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 76,300 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 300 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 1,414 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 90.52 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 192 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 568 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 568 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 142 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 17.8 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 96 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of L40 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).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 16-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on L40: 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 type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 48 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 384 Bit | |
| Memory clock speed | 2250 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 864.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on L40. 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 Connectors | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by L40, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.7 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.9 | |
| DLSS | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of L40. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
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.
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.
GeekBench 5 Vulkan
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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to L40 is Radeon PRO W7700, which is faster by 3% and higher by 9 positions in our ranking.
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