Intel Xe Arctic Sound: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
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. 32 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 a dual-slot graphics 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 500 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Xe Arctic Sound: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Generation 12.5 (2021−2023) | |
| GPU code name | Arctic Sound | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | no data |
Detailed specifications
Xe Arctic Sound's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Xe Arctic Sound's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4096 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 900 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 8,000 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 10 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 500 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 230.4 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 7.373 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 128 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 256 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Xe Arctic Sound 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 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Xe Arctic Sound: 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 | 32 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 2.4 GB/s | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,229 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Xe Arctic Sound. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by Xe Arctic Sound, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
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