Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 16GB VRAM RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 1.02TB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock1746MHz
Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
+9%
14.75 TFLOPS
RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation
13.41 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Nov 2018
Xe Graphics
Generation
Radeon Instinct
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1200 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1746 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
HBM2
4096bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
1.02TB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
60
-
SM Count
48
8192
Shading Units
3840
256
TMUs
240
128
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
48
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
111.7 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
419.0 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.82 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.41 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.705 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
300W
900 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
Vega 20
-
GPU Variant
Vega 20 GLXT
Generation 12.7
Architecture
GCN 5.1
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
7 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
13.23 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
331 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
