Intel Arctic Sound-M vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

Comparison of Intel Arctic Sound-M with 16 GB HBM2e and 8,192 cores vs MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z with 32 GB GDDR7 and 21,760 cores.

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Performance Rating

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z outperforms Intel Arctic Sound-M by 206.03% in the overall GPU ARK performance rating

A100 A100
H200 H200
MI325X MI325X

Intel Arctic Sound-M

15.4

Intel Arctic Sound-M

15.4
RX 7900 XTX RX 7900 XTX
MI250 MI250
Instinct MI300X Instinct MI300X

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

MSI RTX 5090 LIGHTNING Z

47.2

Contents:

Memory ML Performance Compute Power Architecture & Compatibility ML Software Support Clocks & Performance Power Consumption Rendering Additional

Memory

Memory Size

16 GB
🔥 +100% 32 ГБ

Memory Type

HBM2e GDDR7

Memory Bandwidth

1.23 TB/s
🔥 +46% 1.79 TB/s

Memory Bus Width

4,096 бит 512 бит

ML Performance

FP16 (Half Precision)

29.49 TFLOPS
🔥 +303% 118.8 TFLOPS

BF16 (Brain Float)

No No

TF32 (TensorFloat)

No No

Compute Power

FP32 (Single Precision)

14.75 TFLOPS
🔥 +705% 118.8 TFLOPS

FP64 (Double Precision)

🔥 +99% 3.686 TFLOPS
1.856 TFLOPS

CUDA Cores

8,192
🔥 +166% 21,760

RT Cores

No
🔥 170

Architecture & Compatibility

GPU Architecture

Generation 12.5 Blackwell 2.0

SM (Streaming Multiprocessor)

No
🔥 170

PCIe Version

PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16

ML Software Support

CUDA Version

No 12.0

Clocks & Performance

Base Clock

No
🔥 2,017

Boost Clock

No
🔥 2,730

Memory Clock

1,200
🔥 +46% 1,750

Power Consumption

Recommended PSU

🔥 -36% 900 W
1400 W

Power Connector

8-pin EPS
🔥 2x 16-pin

TDP/TGP

🔥 -50% 500 W
1000 W

Rendering

Texture Units (TMU)

256
🔥 +166% 680

ROP

No
🔥 170

L2 Cache

8 MB
🔥 +1,100% 96 MB

Additional

Slots

Single-slot Triple-slot

Release Date

March 12, 2022 Jan. 6, 2026

Display Outputs

No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x USB Type-C

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