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NVIDIAAda Lovelace

L40

48GB VRAM • 864 GB/s • 90520 FP16 TFLOPS

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Specifications

VRAM
48 GB
Memory Bandwidth
864 GB/s
FP16 TFLOPS
90520
TDP
300W
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
MSRP
$8,000

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