L40S vs RTX 4000 Ada Generation

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared RTX 4000 Ada Generation and L40S, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation
2023
20 GB GDDR6, 130 Watt
64.82
+73.7%

RTX 4000 Ada Generation outperforms L40S by an impressive 74% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking29123
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency35.628.88
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date9 August 2023 (1 year ago)13 October 2022 (2 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 cores614418176
Core clock speed1500 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed2175 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate417.61,431
Floating-point processing power26.73 TFLOPS91.61 TFLOPS
ROPs80192
TMUs192568
Tensor Cores192568
Ray Tracing Cores48142

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length245 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount20 GB48 GB
Memory bus width160 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s864.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.86.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 64.82
+73.7%
L40S 37.31

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.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 25014
+73.7%
L40S 14397

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.

RTX 4000 Ada Generation 148435
L40S 345083
+132%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 64.82 37.31
Recency 9 August 2023 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 20 GB 48 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 300 Watt

RTX 4000 Ada Generation has a 73.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 months, and 130.8% lower power consumption.

L40S, on the other hand, has a 140% higher maximum VRAM amount.

The RTX 4000 Ada Generation is our recommended choice as it beats the L40S in performance tests.


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