L40 vs Tesla K40c

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking408not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency3.31no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK180AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 October 2013 (11 years ago)13 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$7,699 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores288018176
Core clock speed745 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed876 MHz2490 MHz
Number of transistors7,080 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)245 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate210.21,414
Floating-point processing power5.046 TFLOPS90.52 TFLOPS
ROPs48192
TMUs240568
Tensor Coresno data568
Ray Tracing Coresno data142

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 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB48 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.4 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 ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1031.3
CUDA3.58.9

Synthetic benchmark performance

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



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.

Tesla K40c 17468
L40 332005
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Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 October 2013 13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 245 Watt 300 Watt

Tesla K40c has 22.4% lower power consumption.

L40, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Tesla K40c and L40. We've got no test results to judge.


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