Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2021
Mar 2026
Generation
Xe Graphics
Server Blackwell
Type
Professional
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1563 MHz
Base Clock
-
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2415 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
16GB
32GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR7
Memory Bus
4096bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
800.3GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
6144
10496
TMUs
192
328
ROPs
96
112
L2 Cache
8 MB
64 MB
SM Count
-
82
Tensor Cores
-
328
RT Cores
-
82
L1 Cache
-
128 KB (per SM)

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
86.40 GPixel/s
270.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
172.8 GTexel/s
792.1 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
22.12 TFLOPS
50.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.06 TFLOPS
50.70 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.765 TFLOPS
792.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Arctic Sound
GB203
Architecture
Generation 12.5
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
Process Size
10 nm
5 nm
Transistors
8 billion
45.6 billion
Die Size
190 mm²
378 mm²

Board Design

TDP
350W
165W
Suggested PSU
750 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.4
Shader Model
6.5
6.9
CUDA
-
12.0