Arctic Sound 2T vs RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	161	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	37.31	no data
Architecture	Blackwell 2.0 (2025)	Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code name	GB206	Arctic Sound
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	11 August 2025 (recently)	2021 (4 years 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 cores	4352	7680 ×2
Core clock speed	790 MHz	900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1950 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	21,900 million	8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	500 Watt
Texture fill rate	265.2	216.0 ×2
Floating-point processing power	16.97 TFLOPS	13.82 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs	64	120 ×2
TMUs	136	240 ×2
Tensor Cores	136	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	34	no data

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).

Interface	PCIe 5.0 x8	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	167 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None

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 type	GDDR7	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB ×2
Memory bus width	128 Bit	4096 Bit ×2
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	1.23 TB/s ×2

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.1b

No outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.8	6.6
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	3.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.4	N/A
CUDA	12.0	-
DLSS	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	5 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	70 Watt	500 Watt

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