Intel Arctic Sound 1T: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Arctic Sound 1T sales on 2021. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Generation 12.5 architecture and made with 10 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 2.4 GB/s are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,229 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 350 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Arctic Sound 1T: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 12.5 (2021−2022) | |
| GPU code name | Arctic Sound | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2021 (3 years ago) |
Technical specs
Arctic Sound 1T's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Arctic Sound 1T's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 6144 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 172.8 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arctic Sound 1T 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 | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Arctic Sound 1T: 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2.4 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,229 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Arctic Sound 1T. 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 support
APIs supported by Arctic Sound 1T, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.6 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Arctic Sound 1T according to our statistics.
