NVIDIA A10 PCIe vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA A10 PCIe 's Advantages
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A10 PCIe
+111%
31.24 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
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
885 MHz
Base Clock
-
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1563 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
24GB
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
162.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
488.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
31.24 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
31.24 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
976.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
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
