Intel Arctic Sound 2T

Intel Arctic Sound 2T

Intel Arctic Sound 2T is a Professional video accelerator from Intel. It began to be released in January 2021. It also has a memory frequency of 1200MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

Basic

Label Name
Intel
Platform
Professional
Launch Date
January 2021
Model Name
Arctic Sound 2T
Generation
Xe Graphics
Shading Units
?
The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.
7680
Transistors
8,000 million
TMUs
?
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.
240
L2 Cache
8MB
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Foundry
Intel
Process Size
10 nm
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TDP
500W

Memory Specifications

Memory Size
16GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
Memory Bus
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The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.
4096bit
Memory Clock
1200MHz
Bandwidth
?
Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.
1229 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
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Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.
108.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
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Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.
216.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.
27.65 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
3.456 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
?
An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.
13.816 TFlops

Miscellaneous

Vulkan Version
?
Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.
N/A
OpenCL Version
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
DirectX
12 (12_1)
Power Connectors
None
ROPs
?
The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.
120
Shader Model
6.5
Suggested PSU
900W

FP32 (float)

13.816 TFlops

Compared to Other GPU

SiliconCat Rating

209
Ranks 209 among all GPU on our website
FP32 (float)
Tesla V100 SXM3 32 GB
NVIDIA, March 2018
15.051 TFlops
GRID A100A
NVIDIA, May 2020
14.453 TFlops
Arctic Sound 2T
Intel, January 2021
13.816 TFlops
13.464 TFlops
Radeon RX 6750 XT
AMD, March 2022
13.043 TFlops