NVIDIA RTX A2000 vs Intel Arctic Sound 1T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 6GB VRAM RTX A2000 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 1T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock1200MHz
Lower TDP (70W vs 350W)
Intel Arctic Sound 1T 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000
7.987 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound 1T
+38%
11.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2021
Release Date
Jan 2021
Quadro Ampere
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
562 MHz
Base Clock
-
1200 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
192bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
26
SM Count
-
3328
Shading Units
6144
104
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
104
Tensor Cores
-
26
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
7.987 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
350W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GA106-850-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Samsung
Foundry
Intel
8 nm
Process Size
10 nm
12 billion
Transistors
8 billion
276 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
6.5
