Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A6000

VS

Intel Arctic Sound M

NVIDIA RTX A6000

We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Intel Arctic Sound M and 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 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 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 768.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock1800MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Intel Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

RTX A6000 +162%

38.71 TFLOPS

Intel Arctic Sound M

VS

RTX A6000

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Oct 2020

Xe Graphics

Generation

Quadro Ampere

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1410 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1800 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

48GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR6

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1229GB/s

Bandwidth

768.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

84

8192

Shading Units

10752

256

TMUs

336

128

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

8 MB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

201.6 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

604.8 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

38.71 TFLOPS

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.71 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

604.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

300W

900 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

DG2-512

GPU Name

GA102

-

Generation 12.7

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

6 nm

Process Size

8 nm

21.7 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

406 mm²

Die Size

628 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

6.7

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