Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs NVIDIA GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 1T and 48GB VRAM GRID A100A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound 1T 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Lower TDP (350W vs 400W)
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
Boost Clock1005MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arctic Sound 1T
11.06 TFLOPS
GRID A100A
+25%
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
May 2020
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1005 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
48GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2e
4096bit
Memory Bus
6144bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
1866GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
108
6144
Shading Units
6912
192
TMUs
432
96
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
86.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
172.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
22.12 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
11.06 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
2.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
400W
750 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Arctic Sound
GPU Name
GA100
-
-
-
Generation 12.5
Architecture
Ampere
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
7 nm
8 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
190 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.5
Shader Model
N/A
