Intel Arctic Sound M vs Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 128GB VRAM Data Center GPU Max 1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (500W vs 600W)
Intel Data Center GPU Max 1550 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Boost Clock1600MHz
More VRAM (128GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (3277GB/s vs 1229GB/s)
8192 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Data Center GPU Max 1550
+255%
52.43 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Jan 2023
Xe Graphics
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1600 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
128GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2e
4096bit
Memory Bus
8192bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
3277GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
16384
256
TMUs
1024
128
ROPs
0
-
Tensor Cores
1024
-
RT Cores
128
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per EU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
408 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
0 MPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1638 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.43 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
52.43 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
52.43 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
600W
900 W
Suggested PSU
1000 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Ponte Vecchio
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
6 nm
Process Size
10 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
100 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
1280 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
