NVIDIA L2 24GB vs NVIDIA L40S 48GB

The L2 is the newer part: Ada Lovelace, launched in 2024, against the L40S's Ada Lovelace from 2023. Newer architectures typically add lower-precision formats and better throughput per watt, so check the precision rows your workload actually uses.

Dense throughput for the L2 against the L40S: FP32 24 vs 92 TFLOPS, FP16 97 vs 362 TFLOPS. Sparse figures, where the vendor publishes them, appear under each dense number in the performance table.

Memory is 24 GB against 48 GB, fed at 300 GB/s versus 864 GB/s. More memory per GPU means larger models fit before you have to shard across cards, which often matters more than raw TFLOPS for inference.

For LLM training and inference, weight the FP8 and FP16 rows and memory capacity most heavily. For scientific and HPC workloads, the FP64 row is the one to read.