Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA A10M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 24GB VRAM A10M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 600.2GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA A10M 's Advantages
Boost Clock1635MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
Lower TDP (150W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
A10M
+58%
23.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Feb 2022
Xe Graphics
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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Base Clock
975 MHz
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Boost Clock
1635 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
56
8192
Shading Units
7168
256
TMUs
224
128
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
RT Cores
56
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
130.8 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
366.2 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.44 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.44 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
732.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
150W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA102
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-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
