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SambaNova · accelerator

NVIDIA · workstation

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Spec	SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit	NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
AI Tops	—	1,687
Bandwidth GB S	—	896
Bf16 Tflops PER Socket	638	—
Cuda Cores	—	10,496
DDR Bandwidth GB S	200	—
Ddr5 Capacity TB	1.5	—
Displayport Count	—	4
Displayport Version	—	2.1b
ECC	—	true
Form factor	—	4.4 in H x 10.5 in L, dual slot
Hbm3 Capacity GB	64	—
Memory BUS Bits	—	256
Nvdec Count	—	2
Nvdec GEN	—	6
Nvenc Count	—	2
Nvenc GEN	—	9
ON Chip Sram MB	520	—
Packaging	3x CoWoS-S, 2 accelerator dies	—
Pattern Compute Units	1,040	—
Pcie GEN	—	5
Process Node	TSMC 5nm	—
RT Cores	—	82
RT Cores GEN	—	4
Slot Width	—	2
TDP (W)↓ better	—	200
Tensor Cores	—	328
Tensor Cores GEN	—	5
VRAM (GB)	—	32
Vram Type	—	GDDR7 ECC