Intel Xe Arctic Sound: specs and benchmarks

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 dual-slot 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.

General info

Some basic facts about Xe Arctic Sound: 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	no data
Current price	$190	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

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 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 (GeForce RTX 4080)
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 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

Memory

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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	4096 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
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 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 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

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Xe Arctic Sound. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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