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NVIDIA L4

The NVIDIA L4 is a graphics card released on March 21, 2023, built on the Ada Lovelace architecture. It has a boost clock of 2.04 GHz. It scores 10,803 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports CUDA compute capability 8.9.

Ada Lovelace

5/10 key specs recorded · 29 facts

Depth: 17 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

n/a

GDDR6

Boost clock

2.04 GHz

Board power

n/a

Performance

The NVIDIA L4 scores 10,803 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #287), measured across 15 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 433.

PassMark G3D Mark

10,803

Rank #287
Faster than 89.8% of 2,658 GPUs
15 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 149 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 83.9% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 79 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 86.1% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 76 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 79.9% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 45 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 77% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 3,372 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 76% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA L4 averages DirectX 9 149 fps, DirectX 10 79 fps, DirectX 11 76 fps, DirectX 12 45 fps and GPU Compute 3,372 ops/s, across 15 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2024-02-29

Samples 15

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA L4 specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA L4-12Q, NVIDIA L4-1B, NVIDIA L4-1Q, NVIDIA L4-24Q, NVIDIA L4-2A, NVIDIA L4-2B, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Ada Lovelace

Codename Not recorded

Chip Not recorded

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Transistors Not recorded

Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA L4 is based on the Ada Lovelace architecture.

Clock speeds

Base clock Not recorded

Boost clock 2.04 GHz

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA L4 boosts to 2.04 GHz.

Memory

Size Not recorded

Type GDDR6

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

Market

Launched March 21, 2023

Launch price Not recorded

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Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Data Center

The NVIDIA L4 was released on March 21, 2023.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 10,803

PassMark G2D 433

Rank #287

Samples 15

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA L4 supports CUDA compute capability 8.9.

CUDA compute capability 8.9

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA L4. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA L4.

Features

The NVIDIA L4 has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 8.9

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.

Not listed (2)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA L4 supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA L4 supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.9) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA L4 provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC), HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.

NVIDIA NVENC encoder 8th Generation Encoder engines: 2NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 5th Generation Decoder engines: 4NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA L4
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)	Supported4:4:4: Yes	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported4:2:2: No; 4:4:4: Yes; 10-bit: Yes; B-frames: Yes; 8K: Yes	Supported4:4:4: Yes
AV1	Supported	Supported
VP9	Not stated by the vendor	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA L4: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (8th Generation, encoder engines: 2) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 4).

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the NVIDIA L4?

The NVIDIA L4 scores 10,803 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 89.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #287. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 45 fps.