Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs NVIDIA RTX A4500

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 20GB VRAM RTX A4500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 640.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A4500 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock1650MHz

More VRAM (20GB vs 16GB)

Lower TDP (200W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound 2T

13.82 TFLOPS

RTX A4500 +71%

23.65 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T

VS

RTX A4500

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Nov 2021

Xe Graphics

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

20GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

320bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

640.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

56

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

7168

240

TMUs

224

120

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

RT Cores

56

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

216.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

369.6 GTexel/s

27.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.65 TFLOPS

13.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

3.456 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

369.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arctic Sound

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

-

Generation 12.5

Architecture

Ampere

Intel

Foundry

Samsung

10 nm

Process Size

8 nm

8 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

200W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

6.7

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