NVIDIA RTX A4500 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 20GB VRAM RTX A4500 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4500 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 16GB)

Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 640.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4500 +71%

23.65 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T

13.82 TFLOPS

RTX A4500

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Arctic Sound 2T

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jan 2021

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

20GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

320bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

640.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

56

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

7168

Shading Units

7680

224

TMUs

240

96

ROPs

120

224

Tensor Cores

-

56

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

158.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.0 GPixel/s

369.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

216.0 GTexel/s

23.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

27.65 TFLOPS

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.82 TFLOPS

369.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.456 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.5

Samsung

Foundry

Intel

8 nm

Process Size

10 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.6

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.5

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