Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA L4
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 24GB VRAM L4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA L4 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
Lower TDP (72W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
L4
+105%
30.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2023
Xe Graphics
Generation
Tesla Ada(Lxx)
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
795 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2040 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1563 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
24GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
300.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
60
8192
Shading Units
7424
256
TMUs
240
128
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
240
-
RT Cores
60
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
163.2 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
489.6 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
30.29 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
30.29 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
473.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
72W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
AD104
-
GPU Variant
AD104-???-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
5 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
