Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Data Center GPU Flex 170 and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Boost Clock2050MHz
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 512.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Data Center GPU Flex 170
+13%
16.79 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2022
Release Date
Jan 2022
Data Center GPU
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1950 MHz
Base Clock
-
2050 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
4096
Shading Units
8192
256
TMUs
256
128
ROPs
128
-
-
-
32
RT Cores
-
-
-
-
16 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
262.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
524.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
33.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
16.79 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
500W
450 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 2.0
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
ACM-G10
GPU Variant
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
6 nm
Process Size
10 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
8 billion
406 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
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
6.6
