L40S: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

L40S provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 45.28% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

NVIDIA started L40S sales 13 October 2022. 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 300 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about L40S: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking81
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency12.16of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date13 October 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

L40S's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of L40S's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores18176of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1110 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)300 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate1,431of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power91.61 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs192of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs568of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Tensor Cores568of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
Ray Tracing Cores142of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
L1 Cache17.8 MBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache48 MBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of L40S 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 L40S: 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 L40S. 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by L40S, 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 L40S. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

L40S
45.28

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.

L40S 20022
Samples: 7

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.

L40S 334697

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.

L40S 250696

Gaming performance

Let's see how good L40S 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

L40S's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to L40S is Radeon Pro W6800, which is faster by 1% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

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