Intel Arctic Sound M vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
Oct 2020
Generation
Data Center GPU
Quadro Ampere
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1800 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
48GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Memory Bus
4096bit
384bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
768.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
8192
10752
TMUs
256
336
ROPs
128
112
L2 Cache
8 MB
6 MB
SM Count
—
84
Tensor Cores
—
336
RT Cores
—
84
L1 Cache
—
128 KB (per SM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
115.2 GPixel/s
201.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
230.4 GTexel/s
604.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
29.49 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
14.75 TFLOPS
38.71 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.686 TFLOPS
604.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GA102
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Ampere
Foundry
Intel
Samsung
Process Size
10 nm
8 nm
Transistors
8 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
500W
300W
Suggested PSU
900 W
700 W
Outputs
No outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
8-pin EPS
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
17,742
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
9,324
OctaneBench
—
600
3DMark Speed Way
—
4,965
Blender
—
5,387
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.