RTX A5500 vs Arctic Sound M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM RTX A5500 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A5500 's Advantages
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (230W vs 500W)
Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5500
+131%
34100
Arctic Sound M
14750
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Jan 2022
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1080 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
80
SM Count
-
10240
Shading Units
8192
320
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
128
320
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
159.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
34.10 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
230W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
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
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
