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Ada Lovelace Architecture
Ampere Architecture
| Specification | NVIDIA L40S | NVIDIA RTX A6000 |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| Release Year | 2023 | 2020 |
| VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 864 GB/s+12.5% | 768 GB/s |
| FP32 Performance | 91.6 TFLOPS+136.7% | 38.7 TFLOPS |
| FP16 Performance | 183 TFLOPS+136.4% | 77.4 TFLOPS |
| INT8 Performance | 733 TOPS+136.5% | 310 TOPS |
| Tensor Cores | 18176 | 10752 |
| CUDA Cores | 18176 | 10752 |
| TDP | 350W | 300W |
| Form Factor | PCIe | PCIe |
| NVLink Support | No | Yes |
| Avg. Price/Hour | $0.85+21.4% | $0.7 |
Single-precision floating-point performance for general compute workloads
NVIDIA L40S is 136.7% faster
Half-precision performance optimized for deep learning training
NVIDIA L40S is 136.4% faster
Integer performance for efficient model inference and deployment
NVIDIA L40S is 136.5% faster
Data transfer speed between GPU and memory
NVIDIA L40S is 12.5% faster
NVIDIA L40S
NVIDIA RTX A6000
NVIDIA RTX A6000
NVIDIA L40S
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