Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 6GB VRAM RTX A3000 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 's Advantages
Boost Clock1230MHz
Lower TDP (70W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+46%
14.75 TFLOPS
RTX A3000 Mobile
10.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Apr 2021
Xe Graphics
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
600 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1230 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
6GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
32
8192
Shading Units
4096
256
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
128
-
RT Cores
32
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
78.72 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
157.4 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.08 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.08 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
157.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
70W
900 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA104
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
