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NVIDIA L40S

The NVIDIA L40S is a graphics card. It scores 20,023 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports CUDA compute capability 8.9.

1/10 key specs recorded · 24 facts

Depth: 13 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified July 25, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs and NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix. Coverage: 1 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark NVIDIA Developer: CUDA GPUs NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

n/a

Memory

n/a

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

n/a

Performance

The NVIDIA L40S scores 20,023 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #94), measured across 9 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 708.

PassMark G3D Mark

20,023

Rank #94
Faster than 96.7% of 2,658 GPUs
9 samples

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

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 220 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 93.1% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 136 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 95.6% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 217 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 95.5% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 78 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 92.2% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 17,166 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 98.5% 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 L40S averages DirectX 9 220 fps, DirectX 10 136 fps, DirectX 11 217 fps, DirectX 12 78 fps and GPU Compute 17,166 ops/s, across 9 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

First benchmarked 2024-03-14

Samples 9

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA L40S specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA L40S-12A, NVIDIA L40S-12Q, NVIDIA L40S-16Q, NVIDIA L40S-1Q, NVIDIA L40S-24Q, NVIDIA L40S-2B, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Market

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Launch price Not recorded

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Segment Desktop

Series Data Center

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 20,023

PassMark G2D 708

Rank #94

Samples 9

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA L40S supports CUDA compute capability 8.9.

CUDA compute capability 8.9

Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA L40S. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA L40S.

Features

The NVIDIA L40S 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 L40S supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA L40S supports CUDA (Compute capability 8.9) under Compute and AI.

Media engine

The NVIDIA L40S 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: 3NVIDIA's dedicated video-encoding engine, used by streaming and capture software; newer generations encode more efficiently.

NVIDIA NVDEC decoder 5th Generation Decoder engines: 3NVIDIA's dedicated video-decoding engine; newer generations support more codecs and formats.

Hardware video codec support of the NVIDIA L40S
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 L40S: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (8th Generation, encoder engines: 3) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (5th Generation, decoder engines: 3).

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the NVIDIA L40S?

The NVIDIA L40S scores 20,023 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 96.7% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #94. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 78 fps.