NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs Intel Arctic Sound M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 80GB VRAM A100 PCIe 80 GB and 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock1410MHz
More VRAM (80GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.94TB/s vs 1229GB/s)
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A100 PCIe 80 GB
+32%
19.49 TFLOPS
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
Tesla Ampere(Axx)
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1065 MHz
Base Clock
-
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1512 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
80GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2e
5120bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
1.94TB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
108
SM Count
-
6912
Shading Units
8192
432
TMUs
256
160
ROPs
128
432
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
80 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
225.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
609.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
77.97 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
19.49 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
9.746 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
500W
700 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
DG2-512
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
6 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
8.0
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.6
