Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA L40
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 48GB VRAM L40 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 864.0GB/s)
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock2490MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
9984 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
L40
+513%
90.52 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2022
Xe Graphics
Generation
Tesla Ada
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2490 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
48GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
864.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
142
8192
Shading Units
18176
256
TMUs
568
128
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
568
-
RT Cores
142
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
478.1 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1414 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
90.52 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
90.52 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1414 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
300W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
AD102
-
GPU Variant
AD102-895-A1
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
4 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
76.3 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
608 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
6.6
