Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

VS

Intel Arctic Sound M

NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arctic Sound M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock1358MHz

Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Intel Arctic Sound M +112%

14.75 TFLOPS

RTX A2000 Mobile

6.953 TFLOPS

Intel Arctic Sound M

VS

RTX A2000 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Apr 2021

Xe Graphics

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

893 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1358 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

20

8192

Shading Units

2560

256

TMUs

80

128

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.18 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.6 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.953 TFLOPS

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.953 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

95W

900 W

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA106

-

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

12 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

276 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

6.6

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