Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages
Boost Clock1800MHz
More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
RTX A6000
+162%
38.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Oct 2020
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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Base Clock
1410 MHz
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Boost Clock
1800 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
48GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
384bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
84
8192
Shading Units
10752
256
TMUs
336
128
ROPs
112
-
Tensor Cores
336
-
RT Cores
84
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
201.6 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
604.8 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
38.71 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
38.71 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
604.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
300W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA102
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-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
628 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
6.7
