NVIDIA A10 vs NVIDIA L4 Full Specs

Summary

9,216 Shaders 1.7GHz	7,680 Shaders 2.04GHz
24GB GDDR6300.3GB/s	24GB GDDR6300.1GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 31.24 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 31.33 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 150W	TDP 72W
Power Connectors - 1x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR -

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1695MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2040MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 999.8 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 1 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 250.7 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 501.4 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 125.3 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 250.7 TFLOPS
Tensor FP16-16 125 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 249.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 62.48 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 125 TFLOPS	Tensor FP16-16 125.3 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 250.7 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 62.67 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 125.3 TFLOPS
BF16 31.24 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 62.48 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 125 TFLOPS	BF16 31.33 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 62.67 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 125.3 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 31.24 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 31.33 TFLOPS
FP32 31.24 TFLOPS	FP32 31.33 TFLOPS
FP64 488.2 GFLOPS	FP64 489.6 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 499.9 TOPS	Tensor INT4 501.4 TOPS
Tensor INT8 249.9 TOPS	Tensor INT8 250.7 TOPS
Ray 47.12 TOPS	Ray 72.43 TOPS
Pixel Rate 162.7 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 163.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 488.2 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 489.6 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 9,216 Shaders	Shaders 7,680 Shaders
TMUs 288 TMUs	TMUs 240 TMUs
ROPs 96 ROPs	ROPs 80 ROPs
Tensor Cores 288 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 240 T-Cores
RT Cores 72 RT-Cores	RT Cores 60 RT-Cores
SMs 72 SMs	SMs 60 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 885MHz	Base Clock 795MHz
Boost Clock 1.7GHz	Boost Clock 2.04GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 6MB shared

L2 Cache 48MB shared

Memory

24GB GDDR6	24GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 384-bit	Memory Bus 192-bit
Memory Speed 6.3GT/s	Memory Speed 12.5GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 300.3GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 300.1GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 150W

TDP 72W

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 7	Encoder Model 2x NVENC 8
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 5	Decoder Model NVDEC 5
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 1-Slots	PCIe 1-Slots
Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 20 mm (0.79")	Height 56 mm (2.21") Width 169 mm (6.65") Depth 20 mm (0.79")
Cooling Passive	Cooling Passive
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Ampere	Architecture Ada Lovelace
Family Server	Family Server
Branding	Branding
Codename NV172	Codename NV184
Chip Variant GA102-200-KD-A1	Chip Variant AD104-250
Market Segment Server	Market Segment Server
Release Date Apr 12, 2021	Release Date Mar 21, 2023

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node 4N
Die Size 628mm²	Die Size 295mm²
Transistor Count 28.3 Billion	Transistor Count 35.8 Billion
Transistor Density 45.04 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 121.6 MTr/mm²

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