A10G vs Arctic Sound M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 12GB VRAM A10G and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
A10G 's Advantages
Boost Clock1710MHz
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A10G
+113%
31520
Arctic Sound M
14750
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
Tesla
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
600.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
72
SM Count
-
9216
Shading Units
8192
288
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
128
288
Tensor Cores
-
72
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
492.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
31.52 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
31.52 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
985.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GA102-890-A1
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
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
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
