NVIDIA RTX A6000 vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 48GB VRAM RTX A6000 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 A6000 's Advantages

Boost Clock1800MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 16GB)

2560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (300W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A6000 +162%

38.71 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

14.75 TFLOPS

RTX A6000

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Oct 2020

Release Date

Jan 2022

Quadro Ampere

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1800 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

48GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

768.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

84

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

10752

Shading Units

8192

336

TMUs

256

112

ROPs

128

336

Tensor Cores

-

84

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

201.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

604.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

38.71 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

38.71 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

604.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

-

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Generation 12.5

Samsung

Foundry

Intel

8 nm

Process Size

10 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

8 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

500W

700 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

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

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