NVIDIA L40 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM L40 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA L40 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock2490MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
10496 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 864.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
L40
+554%
90.52 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound 2T
13.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jan 2021
Tesla Ada
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
-
2490 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
-
18176
Shading Units
7680
568
TMUs
240
192
ROPs
120
568
Tensor Cores
-
142
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
96 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
478.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
1414 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
216.0 GTexel/s
90.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
27.65 TFLOPS
90.52 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.82 TFLOPS
1414 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.456 TFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
500W
700 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
AD102-895-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
4 nm
Process Size
10 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
8 billion
608 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
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.5
