Intel Arctic Sound-M: specs and benchmarks

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Intel Arctic Sound-M
Arctic Sound-M
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  • Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
  • Core clock speed 900 MHz
  • Max video memory 16 GB
  • Memory type HBM2e
  • Memory clock speed 2.4 Gbps
  • Maximum resolution
Year of release 2022
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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 gamers. 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 single-slot 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.

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General info

Some basic facts about Arctic Sound-M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ratingnot rated
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2022)
GPU code nameArctic Sound
Market segmentDesktop
Release date2022 (1 year old)

Technical specs

Arctic Sound-M's general performance parameters 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 cores8192of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed900 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors8,000 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology10 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Thermal design power (TDP)500 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate230.4of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility

Information on Arctic Sound-M's 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 x16
Length267 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors8-pin EPS

Memory

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 typeHBM2e
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width4096 Bitof 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed2.4 GB/sof 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth1,229 GB/sof 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API support

APIs supported by Arctic Sound-M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.6
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Arctic Sound-M. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.


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