Chip comparison
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA L40S
Side-by-side specs
Straight from each vendor's datasheet. Winner in bold: higher throughput, memory, or transistor count; lower power draw or price. Sparse (2:4) throughput roughly doubles the FP8/INT8 numbers shown.
| Field | NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU | NVIDIA L40S |
|---|---|---|
| Process node | Samsung 8N | TSMC 4N |
| Transistors (B) | 28.3 | 76.3 |
| Die size | 628 mm² | — |
| TDP | 150 W | 350 W |
| Memory | 24 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bandwidth | 600 GB/s | 864 GB/s |
| FP16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | 362 TFLOPS |
| BF16 (dense) | 125 TFLOPS | 362 TFLOPS |
| FP8 (dense) | — | 733 TFLOPS |
| INT8 (dense) | 250 TOPS | 733 TOPS |
| Form factor | PCIe | PCIe |
| Announced | 2021-04-12 | 2023-08-08 |
| Released | 2021-04-12 | — |
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Common questions
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA L40S: which is faster for training?
NVIDIA L40S has 5.86x the dense FP16/BF16 throughput of the other (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 125 TFLOPS; NVIDIA L40S: 733 TFLOPS). Real-world training speed also depends on memory bandwidth, interconnect, and software stack: see the spec diff for those inputs.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA L40S: which has more memory?
NVIDIA L40S carries more HBM (NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU: 24 GB GDDR6; NVIDIA L40S: 48 GB GDDR6). Memory capacity sets the largest model that fits on one chip without partitioning; memory bandwidth sets inference throughput.
NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU vs NVIDIA L40S: which is more power-efficient?
Dense FP16/BF16 TFLOPS per watt: NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU 0.83 (125 ÷ 150 W); NVIDIA L40S 2.09 (733 ÷ 350 W). NVIDIA L40S wins at the die level; system-level efficiency also depends on cooling and interconnect.
See also: every chip comparison · NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU full page · NVIDIA L40S full page.