Intel Arctic Sound M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI100
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 32GB VRAM Radeon Instinct MI100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon Instinct MI100 's Advantages
Boost Clock1502MHz
More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
Radeon Instinct MI100
+56%
23.07 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2020
Xe Graphics
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1502 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
32GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2
4096bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
120
-
-
-
8192
Shading Units
7680
256
TMUs
480
128
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
96.13 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
721.0 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
184.6 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.07 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
11.54 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
300W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Arcturus
-
GPU Variant
Arcturus XL
Generation 12.7
Architecture
CDNA 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
7 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
25.6 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
750 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
