Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs NVIDIA RTX A2000
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
Aug 2021
Generation
Xe Graphics
Quadro Ampere
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
—
562 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
6GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR6
Memory Bus
4096bit
192bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
6144
3328
TMUs
192
104
ROPs
96
48
L2 Cache
8 MB
3 MB
SM Count
—
26
Tensor Cores
—
104
RT Cores
—
26
L1 Cache
—
128 KB (per SM)
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
57.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
124.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
7.987 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GA106
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Ampere
Foundry
Intel
Samsung
Process Size
10 nm
8 nm
Transistors
8 billion
12 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
276 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GA106-850-A1
Board Design
TDP
350W
70W
Suggested PSU
750 W
250 W
Outputs
No outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
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
6.5
6.7
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.