NVIDIA L40S 48GB GDDR6 workstation
Equipped with the Ada Lovelace L40S chip and 48GB of ECC GDDR6 memory, this card delivers 1,466 teraFLOPS of FP8 compute and 212 teraFLOPS of ray tracing performance in a 350W dual-slot design. Its massive 48GB frame buffer and error-correcting memory ensure reliable handling of large datasets that exceed consumer GPU capacity. This card is best for AI researchers fine-tuning large language models and data scientists running sustained, memory-intensive training workloads.
GPU L40S
VRAM 48GB GDDR6
TDP 350 W
Ray Tracing Yes
Class workstation
41 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong ai (99th percentile) 99th
- Strong vram (99th percentile) 99th
Cons
- Below average connectivity (6th percentile)
- Below average thermal (7th percentile)
- Below average compute (9th percentile)
- Below average efficiency (24th percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Chipset
| GPU Chipset | L40S |
| Brand | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ada |
| Class | workstation |
Memory
| VRAM | 48 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 |
| ECC | Yes |
Performance
| PassMark G3D | 20022 |
| GPU Compute | 18866 |
Power & Cooling
| TDP | 350 |
Connectivity
| Interface | PCI Express 4.0 x16 |
Physical
| Slot Width | 2 |
Features
| Ray Tracing | Yes |
vs Competition
| Spec | NVIDIA L40S | ASUS ProArt RTX 5080 | Gigabyte AERO GV-N5080AERO OC-16GD | MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti 16G VENTUS 3X PZ OC | PNY ARGB OC VCG508016TFXXPB1-O | ZOTAC SOLID SFF OC ZT-B50710J3-10P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chipset | L40S | GeForce RTX 5080 | GeForce RTX 5080 | GeForce RTX 5070 Ti | GeForce RTX 5080 | GeForce RTX 5070 Ti |
| Vram | 48GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 | 16GB GDDR7 |
| Boost Clock Mhz | - | 2730 | 2730 | 2482 | 2620 | 2482 |
| Tdp W | 350 | 150 | 360 | 300 | 360 | 300 |
| Memory Bus Bits | - | 256 | 256 | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| Ray Tracing | true | true | true | true | true | true |
| GPU Class | workstation | consumer | consumer | consumer | consumer | consumer |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | AI | Rt | Vram | Raster | Compute | Feature | Thermal | Efficiency | Connectivity | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA L40S | 98.5 | 38.3 | 98.5 | 49.2 | 8.9 | 43.9 | 6.8 | 24.3 | 5.5 | 55.9 |
| ASUS ProArt RTX 5080 Compare | 86.7 | 95.8 | 88.3 | 94.6 | 97.2 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 97.4 | 98.6 | 95.3 |
| Gigabyte AERO GV-N5080AERO OC-16GD Compare | 86.7 | 95.8 | 88.3 | 94.6 | 97.2 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 57.6 | 94 | 88.6 |
| MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti 16G VENTUS 3X PZ OC Compare | 80.6 | 92.5 | 85.1 | 88.8 | 93 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 68.9 | 94 | 88.6 |
| PNY ARGB OC VCG508016TFXXPB1-O Compare | 86.7 | 97.6 | 88.3 | 94.6 | 97.2 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 57.6 | 94 | 82.2 |
| ZOTAC SOLID SFF OC ZT-B50710J3-10P Compare | 80.6 | 92.5 | 85.1 | 88.8 | 93 | 96.4 | 91.5 | 68.9 | 94 | 82.2 |
Price
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