NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q vs Intel Arctic Sound 1T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q 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 A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1260MHz
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 350W)
Intel Arctic Sound 1T 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5500 Max Q
+69%
18.71 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound 1T
11.06 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2022
Release Date
Jan 2021
Ampere-MW
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
585 MHz
Base Clock
-
1260 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
-
-
-
58
SM Count
-
7424
Shading Units
6144
232
TMUs
192
96
ROPs
96
232
Tensor Cores
-
58
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
121.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
292.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
18.71 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
18.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
292.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
350W
-
Suggested PSU
750 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA103
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
-
-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Samsung
Foundry
Intel
8 nm
Process Size
10 nm
22 billion
Transistors
8 billion
496 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
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.5
