NVIDIA DRIVE A100 PROD vs NVIDIA L4
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2020
Mar 2023
Generation
DRIVE
Tesla Ada(Lxx)
Type
Desktop
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1260 MHz
795 MHz
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
2040 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
1563 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
24GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Memory Bus
6144bit
192bit
Bandwidth
1.87TB/s
300.1GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
108
60
Shading Units
6912
7424
TMUs
432
240
ROPs
192
80
Tensor Cores
432
240
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
32 MB
48 MB
RT Cores
-
60
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
241.9 GPixel/s
163.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
544.3 GTexel/s
489.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
69.67 TFLOPS
30.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
17.42 TFLOPS
30.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
8.709 TFLOPS
473.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
AD104
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
5 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
35.8 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
294 mm²
GPU Variant
-
AD104-???-A1
Board Design
TDP
400W
72W
Suggested PSU
800 W
250 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
CUDA
8.0
8.9
Shader Model
N/A
6.8