NVIDIA RTX A4000 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A4000 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 's Advantages

Boost Clock1560MHz

Lower TDP (140W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4000 +29%

19.17 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

RTX A4000

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Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

6144

Shading Units

8192

192

TMUs

256

96

ROPs

128

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

149.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

299.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

19.17 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

19.17 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

299.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

GA104-875-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.5

Samsung

Foundry

Intel

8 nm

Process Size

10 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

6.6

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