NVIDIA L4 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM L4 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA L4 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock2040MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
Lower TDP (72W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 300.1GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L4
+105%
30.29 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jan 2022
Tesla Ada(Lxx)
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
795 MHz
Base Clock
-
2040 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
192bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
300.1GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
60
SM Count
-
7424
Shading Units
8192
240
TMUs
256
80
ROPs
128
240
Tensor Cores
-
60
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
163.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
489.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
30.29 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
30.29 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
473.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
72W
TDP
500W
250 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
AD104-???-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
5 nm
Process Size
10 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
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
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.6
