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NVIDIAAI GPU · PCIe (low profile)

L4

NVIDIA L4 is a Ada Lovelace data-center accelerator with 24 GB GDDR6 and 0.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

Ladder rank
#24
AI index (H100 SXM = 100)
10.5
Series
Ada Lovelace

Specifications

Dense throughput, no sparsity
Architecture Ada Lovelace
Form factor PCIe (low profile)
Process TSMC 4N
FP16 / BF16 tensor (dense) 121 TFLOPS
FP8 tensor (dense) 242.5 TFLOPS
FP4 tensor (dense) —
Memory 24 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth 0.3 TB/s
Power 72 W
Launch Mar 2023

AI index

Tensor × bandwidth

100 × √((121 ÷ 989.4) × (0.3 ÷ 3.35)) = 10.5

The AI index is the geometric mean of dense 16-bit tensor throughput and memory bandwidth, each relative to the H100 SXM. It is a spec-sheet comparison, not a measured benchmark.

Sources

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