RTX 2000 Ada Generation vs Arctic Sound-M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated72
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data81.72
Power efficiencyno data45.85
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameArctic SoundAD107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date2022 (2 years ago)12 February 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$649

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores81922816
Core clock speed900 MHz1620 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2130 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt70 Watt
Texture fill rate230.4187.4
Floating-point processing power14.75 TFLOPS12 TFLOPS
ROPs12848
TMUs25688
Tensor Coresno data88
Ray Tracing Coresno data22

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mm168 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPSNone

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 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.23 TB/s256.0 GB/s

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 outputs4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 70 Watt

RTX 2000 Ada Generation has a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 614.3% lower power consumption.

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