RTX A1000 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 rated192
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data39.86
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameArctic SoundGA107
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date2022 (2 years ago)16 April 2024 (less than a year 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 cores81922304
Core clock speed900 MHz727 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1462 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million8,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate230.4105.3
Floating-point processing power14.75 TFLOPS6.737 TFLOPS
ROPs12832
TMUs25672
Tensor Coresno data72
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

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 mm163 mm
Width1-slot1-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 GB8 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.23 TB/s192.0 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 Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 50 Watt

Arctic Sound-M has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX A1000, on the other hand, has a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Arctic Sound-M and RTX A1000. We've got no test results to judge.


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