Intel Arctic Sound 2T vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T and 4GB VRAM RTX A500 Embedded 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 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1335MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arctic Sound 2T
+152%
13.82 TFLOPS
RTX A500 Embedded
5.468 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 2022
Xe Graphics
Generation
Quadro Ampere-M
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
435 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1335 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
64bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
7680
Shading Units
2048
240
TMUs
64
120
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
64
-
RT Cores
16
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
108.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.72 GPixel/s
216.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.44 GTexel/s
27.65 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
5.468 TFLOPS
13.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.468 TFLOPS
3.456 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.44 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
20W
900 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Arctic Sound
GPU Name
GA107S
-
-
-
Generation 12.5
Architecture
Ampere
Intel
Foundry
Samsung
10 nm
Process Size
8 nm
8 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
190 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²
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
