Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 16GB VRAM RTX A5500 Max Q 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 448.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX A5500 Max-Q 's Advantages
Boost Clock1260MHz
Lower TDP (80W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Intel Arctic Sound M
14.75 TFLOPS
RTX A5500 Max Q
+26%
18.71 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2022
Xe Graphics
Generation
Ampere-MW
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
585 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1260 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
16GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
58
8192
Shading Units
7424
256
TMUs
232
128
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
232
-
RT Cores
58
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
115.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
121.0 GPixel/s
230.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
292.3 GTexel/s
29.49 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
18.71 TFLOPS
14.75 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
18.71 TFLOPS
3.686 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
292.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
80W
900 W
Suggested PSU
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
DG2-512
GPU Name
GA103
-
-
-
Generation 12.7
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
6 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.7 billion
Transistors
22 billion
406 mm²
Die Size
496 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
6.8
