NVIDIA A16 vs NVIDIA L40 Full Specs

Summary

5,120 Shaders 1.7GHz	18,176 Shaders 2.49GHz
64GB GDDR6463.4GB/s	48GB GDDR6864GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 17.36 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 90.52 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 250W	TDP 300W
Power Connectors - 1x 8-Pin EPS	Power Connectors 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR -

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Tensor INT4 Memory Bandwidth TDP

A16555.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse (4x 138.9 TOPS)

x1

L402.9 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse

x5.22

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1695MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2490MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 555.4 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 2.9 POPSINT4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP8-16 724.1 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 1.45 PFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 362.1 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 724.1 TFLOPS
Tensor FP16-16 69.43 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 138.9 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 34.71 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 69.43 TFLOPS	Tensor FP16-16 362.1 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 724.1 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 181 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 362.1 TFLOPS
BF16 17.36 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 34.71 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 69.43 TFLOPS	BF16 90.52 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 181 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 362.1 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 17.36 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 90.52 TFLOPS
FP32 17.36 TFLOPS	FP32 90.52 TFLOPS
FP64 271.2 GFLOPS	FP64 1.41 TFLOPS
Tensor INT4 277.7 TOPS	Tensor INT4 1.45 POPS
Tensor INT8 138.9 TOPS	Tensor INT8 724.1 TOPS
Ray 26.18 TOPS	Ray 209.2 TOPS
Pixel Rate 54.2 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 478.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 67.8 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 1.41 TTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 5,120 Shaders	Shaders 18,176 Shaders
TMUs 160 TMUs	TMUs 568 TMUs
ROPs 128 ROPs	ROPs 192 ROPs
Tensor Cores 160 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 568 T-Cores
RT Cores 40 RT-Cores	RT Cores 142 RT-Cores
SMs 40 SMs	SMs 142 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 885MHz	Base Clock 735MHz
Boost Clock 1.7GHz	Boost Clock 2.49GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 2MB shared

L2 Cache 98.3MB shared

Memory

64GB GDDR6	48GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 128-bit	Memory Bus 384-bit
Memory Speed 7.2GT/s	Memory Speed 18GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 463.4GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 864GB/s

Power & Thermals

TDP 250W

TDP 300W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor -	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

-	4x DisplayPort 1.4

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 7

Encoder Model 2x NVENC 8

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Decoder Model NVDEC 5

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2-Slots	PCIe 2-Slots
Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")	Height 111 mm (4.37") Width 267 mm (10.51") Depth 40 mm (1.57")
Cooling Passive	Cooling Passive
Power Connectors 1x 8-Pin EPS	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 NV177	Codename NV182
Chip Variant GA107-140-A1	Chip Variant AD102-200-A1
Market Segment Server	Market Segment Server
Release Date Apr 12, 2021	Release Date Oct 13, 2022

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node 4N
Die Size 200mm²	Die Size 608mm²
Transistor Count 8.7 Billion	Transistor Count 76.3 Billion
Transistor Density 43.5 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 125.4 MTr/mm²

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