Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA GRID A100A
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M 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 M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID A100A 's Advantages
Boost Clock1005MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1866GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
Lower TDP (400W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+6%
14.75 TFLOPS
GRID A100A
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
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
8192
Shading Units
6912
256
TMUs
432
128
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
400W
900 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA100
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
7 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
