Arctic Sound-M vs Radeon Pro W6600M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking219not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.98no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Generation 12.5 (2021−2023)
GPU code nameNavi 23Arctic Sound
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date8 June 2021 (3 years ago)2022 (2 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 cores17928192
Core clock speed1224 MHz900 MHz
Boost clock speed2034 MHzno data
Number of transistors11,060 million8,000 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)90 Watt500 Watt
Texture fill rate227.8230.4
Floating-point processing power7.29 TFLOPS14.75 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs112256
Ray Tracing Cores28no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone8-pin EPS

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 typeGDDR6HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.3N/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 90 Watt 500 Watt

Pro W6600M has a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 455.6% lower power consumption.

Arctic Sound-M, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W6600M and Arctic Sound-M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W6600M is a mobile workstation card while Arctic Sound-M is a workstation one.


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