RTX A6000 vs Arctic Sound M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX A6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1800MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A6000
+162%
38710
Arctic Sound M
14750
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
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
1410 MHz
Base Clock
-
1800 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
768.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
84
SM Count
-
10752
Shading Units
8192
336
TMUs
256
112
ROPs
128
336
Tensor Cores
-
84
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
38.71 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
500W
700 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
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
