Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs NVIDIA RTX A2000

VS

Intel Arctic Sound 2T NVIDIA RTX A2000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

Lower TDP (70W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound 2T +73%

13.82 TFLOPS

RTX A2000

7.987 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T

VS

RTX A2000

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 2021

Xe Graphics

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

562 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

6GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

26

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

3328

240

TMUs

104

120

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

104

-

RT Cores

26

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

57.60 GPixel/s

216.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.8 GTexel/s

27.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.987 TFLOPS

13.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.987 TFLOPS

3.456 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arctic Sound

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-850-A1

Generation 12.5

Architecture

Ampere

Intel

Foundry

Samsung

10 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

12 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

70W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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