Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs NVIDIA GRID A100B
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 48GB VRAM GRID A100B to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID A100B '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)
Arctic Sound 2T
13.82 TFLOPS
GRID A100B
13.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
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
7680
Shading Units
6912
240
TMUs
432
120
ROPs
192
-
Tensor Cores
432
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
108.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
193.0 GPixel/s
216.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
434.2 GTexel/s
27.65 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
55.57 TFLOPS
13.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.89 TFLOPS
3.456 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.947 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
400W
900 W
Suggested PSU
800 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Arctic Sound
GPU Name
GA100
-
-
-
Generation 12.5
Architecture
Ampere
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
7 nm
8 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
190 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.5
Shader Model
N/A
