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