NVIDIA RTX A4 Mobile vs Intel Arctic Sound-M
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A4 Mobile and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A4 Mobile 's Advantages
Boost Clock1770MHz
Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A4 Mobile
7.25 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound M
+103%
14.75 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Jan 2022
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Data Center GPU
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1297 MHz
Base Clock
-
1770 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2e
128bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
16
SM Count
-
2048
Shading Units
8192
64
TMUs
256
32
ROPs
128
64
Tensor Cores
-
16
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
56.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
113.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
7.250 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
7.250 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
113.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
500W
-
Suggested PSU
900 W
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Samsung
Foundry
Intel
8 nm
Process Size
10 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
