Arctic Sound 1T vs Radeon Pro VII

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking158not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation15.83no data
Power efficiency9.25no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameVega 20Arctic Sound
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date13 May 2020 (4 years ago)2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,899 no data

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 cores38406144
Core clock speed1400 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed1700 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,230 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt350 Watt
Texture fill rate408.0172.8
Floating-point processing power13.06 TFLOPS11.06 TFLOPS
ROPs6496
TMUs240192

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 x16
Length305 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeHBM2HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth1024 GB/s1.23 TB/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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 350 Watt

Pro VII has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 40% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro VII and Arctic Sound 1T. We've got no test results to judge.


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