Intel Arctic Sound-M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Arctic Sound-M sales on 2022. This is a Generation 12.5 architecture desktop card based on 10 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 16 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.23 TB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 8-pin EPS power connector is required, and power consumption is at 500 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Arctic Sound-M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 12.5 (2021−2023) | |
| GPU code name | Arctic Sound | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 2022 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Arctic Sound-M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arctic Sound-M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 8192 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 500 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 230.4 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 14.75 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 128 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 256 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arctic Sound-M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-pin EPS |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Arctic Sound-M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2e | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.23 TB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Arctic Sound-M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Arctic Sound-M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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