| Product | NVIDIA® A40 GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling | NVIDIA® L40 ADA GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling | NVIDIA® L40S ADA GPU Computing Accelerator - 48GB GDDR6 - PCIe 4.0 x16 - Passive Cooling |
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| Main Specifications | |||
| Product Series | Nvidia A40 | Nvidia L40 | Nvidia L40S |
| Core Type | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR | NVIDIA TENSOR |
| Host Interface | PCI Express 4.0 x16 | PCI Express 4.0 x16 | PCI Express 4.0 x16 |
| GPU Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| Detailed Specifications | |||
| Streaming Processor Cores | 10752 CUDA Cores | 18,176 | |
| NVIDIA Tensor Cores | 336 Tensor Cores | 568 | Gen 4 | |
| NVIDIA RT Cores | 84 RT Cores | 142 | Gen 3 | |
| Memory Interface | 384-bit | ||
| Memory Speeds (GT/s) | 14.5Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Max Memory Size | 48 GB GDDR6 with error-correcting code (ECC) | 48 GB GDDR6 with ECC | 48GB GDDR6 with ECC |
| Max Memory Bandwidth | 696 GB/s | 864 GB/s | |
| INT8 Tensor Core | 733 teraFLOPS | ||
| TF32 Tensor Core | 183 teraFLOPS | ||
| FP32 | 91.6 teraFLOPS | ||
| Peak BFLOAT16 Tensor Core | 362.05 teraFLOPS | ||
| Peak FP16 Tensor Core | 362.05 teraFLOPS | ||
| Peak FP8 Tensor Core | 733 teraFLOPS | ||
| Peak INT4 Tensor Core | 733 teraFLOPS | ||
| Total NVLink Bandwidth | NVIDIA NVLink 112.5 GB/s (bidirectional) PCIe Gen4 16 GB/s | Not supported | |
| Multi-Instance GPUs | No | ||
| vGPU Software Support | NVIDIA vPC/vApps, NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS) | ||
| NVENC | NVDEC | 3x | 3x (Includes AV1 Encode & Decode) | 3x l 3x (includes AV1 encode and decode) | |
| Secure Boot with Root of Trust | Yes | Yes | |
| NEBS Ready | Yes / Level 3 | Level 3 | |
| DisplayPort Connectors | 3x DisplayPort 1.4 A40 is configured for virtualization by default with physical display connectors disabled. The display outputs can be enabled via management software tools. | 4x DP 1.4a | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Cooling | Passive | Passive | Passive |
| Dual Slot | 2-slot Low-profile | Yes | |
| Dimensions | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) | 4.4" (H) x 10.5" (L) |
| Form Factor | PCIe | ||
| Lithography | Samsung 8nm | ||
| Supplementary Power Connectors | 1x 8-pin CPU (EPS12V) | 1x 16-pin PCIe CEM5 | 1x 16-pin |
| Max Graphics Card Power (W) | 300W | 300W | 350W |
| Action | Select | Select | Select |