NVIDIA L40S vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

VS

NVIDIA L40S Intel Arctic Sound-M

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40S and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA L40S 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

9984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

L40S +521%

91.61 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

L40S

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jan 2022

Tesla Ada

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

864.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

142

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

18176

Shading Units

8192

568

TMUs

256

192

ROPs

128

568

Tensor Cores

-

142

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

48 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

1431 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

91.61 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

91.61 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

1431 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

AD102-???-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

5 nm

Process Size

10 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA L40 vs NVIDIA L40S

2

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA L40S

3

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA L40S

4

NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs NVIDIA L40S

5

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80 GB vs NVIDIA L40S

6

NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA L4

7

NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA L40S

8

NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE

9

NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA Tesla V100 DGXS 32 GB

10

NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA L40G

Related News

1

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

2

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

3

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

4

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

5

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

6

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

7

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

8

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

9

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs

10

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon