NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB vs Intel Arctic Sound 1T

GPU · Specs Compare

GPU NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40 GB NVIDIA · 2020-05

GPU Intel Arctic Sound 1T Intel · 2021-01

Graphics Card

Release Date

May 2020

Jan 2021

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Xe Graphics

Type

AI GPU

Professional

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock

1095 MHz

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Boost Clock

1410 MHz

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Memory Clock

1215 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory

Memory Size

40GB

16GB

Memory Type

HBM2e

Memory Bus

5120bit

4096bit

Bandwidth

1555GB/s

1229GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

108

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Shading Units

6912

6144

TMUs

432

192

ROPs

160

Tensor Cores

432

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L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

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L2 Cache

40 MB

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

225.6 GPixel/s

86.40 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

609.1 GTexel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

77.97 TFLOPS

22.12 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

19.49 TFLOPS

11.06 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

9.746 TFLOPS

2.765 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name

GA100

Arctic Sound

Architecture

Ampere

Generation 12.5

Foundry

TSMC

Intel

Process Size

7 nm

10 nm

Transistors

54.2 billion

8 billion

Die Size

826 mm²

190 mm²

Board Design

TDP

400W

350W

Suggested PSU

800 W

750 W

Outputs

No outputs

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

DirectX

N/A

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

N/A

4.6

OpenCL

3.0

Vulkan

N/A

CUDA

8.0

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Shader Model

N/A

6.5

Benchmark

Blender

2,186

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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.