Intel Arctic Sound-M: specs and benchmarks
Summary
Intel started Arctic Sound-M sales on 2022. 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 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.
General info
Some basic facts about Arctic Sound-M: 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 | 2022 (2 years old) |
Technical specs
Arctic Sound-M's specs 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 cores | 8192 | 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 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 500 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 230.4 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Arctic Sound-M 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 | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 8-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 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-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 Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Arctic Sound-M, 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-M according to our statistics.
