T550 Mobile vs Arctic Sound 1T

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated396
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data37.23
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameArctic SoundTU117
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date2021 (3 years ago)May 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores61441024
Core clock speed900 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1665 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate172.8106.6
Floating-point processing power11.06 TFLOPS3.41 TFLOPS
ROPs9632
TMUs19264

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.23 TB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 23 Watt

Arctic Sound 1T has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

T550 Mobile, on the other hand, has 1421.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arctic Sound 1T and T550 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Arctic Sound 1T is a workstation card while T550 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Arctic Sound 1T
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