Table 1 Performance comparison of PRTC with state-of-the-art electronic and optical computing platforms

From: Thin-film lithium niobate photonic circuit for ray tracing acceleration

Features

Clock rate

Energy efficiency

Limited by ADC

Intel (Xeon-E7-8870)

6 GHz

4.85 GOPs/J

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Nvidia (RTX4090)

2.3 GHz

0.184 TOPs/J

\

AMD (RX7900XTX)

1.9 GHz

0.173 TOPs/J

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ONN with VCSEL20

1 GS/s

1.703 TOPs/J

Yes

ONN with PCM21

13 GS/s

1.389 TOPs/J

Yes

ONN with TFLN23

60 GS/s

0.725 TOPs/J

Yes

PRTC (this work)

16 GS/s (experimental)

200 GS/s (theoretical)

2.762 TOPs/J

18.7 TOPs/J

No

PRTC (with improvement)

200GS/s

39.79 TOPs/J

No