Intel Arctic Sound-M vs NVIDIA A10 PCIe

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M and 24GB VRAM A10 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)

NVIDIA A10 PCIe 's Advantages

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

A10 PCIe +111%

31.24 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

VS

A10 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Data Center GPU

Generation

Tesla

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1563 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

24GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

600.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

72

-

Compute Units

-

8192

Shading Units

9216

256

TMUs

288

128

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

72

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

162.7 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

488.2 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

31.24 TFLOPS

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

31.24 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

976.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Arctic Sound

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-890-A1

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

150W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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