Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

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Intel Arctic Sound 2T NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 12GB VRAM RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Lower TDP (130W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound 2T +17%

13.82 TFLOPS

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

11.8 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T

VS

RTX A3000 Mobile 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2022

Xe Graphics

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

855 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

32

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

4096

240

TMUs

128

120

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

128

-

RT Cores

32

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

92.16 GPixel/s

216.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

184.3 GTexel/s

27.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.80 TFLOPS

13.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.80 TFLOPS

3.456 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

184.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arctic Sound

GPU Name

GA104

-

GPU Variant

-

Generation 12.5

Architecture

Ampere

Intel

Foundry

Samsung

10 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

130W

900 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.5

Shader Model

6.6

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