NVIDIA A100 vs Intel Gaudi 3
Intel Gaudi 3 comes out ahead of NVIDIA A100 on 4 of the 6 things that decide this, going by what each maker publishes. The one that matters for you may be one the leader loses.
The verdict
Intel Gaudi 3 takes it, 4–1 on rounds.
On the published figures, Intel Gaudi 3 takes 4 of 6 rounds. Treat that as a starting point and check the current figures on both pages, because prices and plans move.
Choose NVIDIA A100 if…
- • You want NVIDIA A100's edge on how much power it draws
Choose Intel Gaudi 3 if…
- • You want Intel Gaudi 3's edge on how much memory it has and how fast its memory is
Round by round
- Round 1How much memory it hasIntel Gaudi 3 wins
Intel Gaudi 3 wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 2How fast its memory isIntel Gaudi 3 wins
Intel Gaudi 3 wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 3How fast it runs FP16 AI mathIntel Gaudi 3 winsIntel Gaudi 38/10
459 TFLOPS
FP16 (signed) matrix (MME) peak, Gaudi 3 technical paper Table 5; 1,678 is the BF16/FP8 figure
- bf16 mme (matrix) tflops
Source: cdrdv2-public.intel.com ↗
Intel Gaudi 3 wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 4How much power it drawsNVIDIA A100 wins
NVIDIA A100 wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 5How new it isIntel Gaudi 3 wins
Intel Gaudi 3 wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 6Which memory generation it usesTie
Nothing to separate them here.
Side by side
- bf16 mme (matrix) tflops
- 80 GB HBM2e, against 128 GB HBM2E
- 2,039 GB/s, against 3.7 TB/s
- 312 TFLOPS, against 1,678 TFLOPS
- 2020, against September 24, 2024
- 128 GB HBM2E, against 192 GB HBM
- 3.7 TB/s, against 7.37 TB/s
- 1,678 TFLOPS, against 4,614 TFLOPs
- 1,678 TFLOPS, against 2,307 TFLOPs