NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q vs Intel Arctic Sound-M

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 8GB VRAM GRID M6 8Q and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound-M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID M6 8Q

2.218 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M +565%

14.75 TFLOPS

GRID M6 8Q

VS

Arctic Sound M

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2022

GRID

Generation

Data Center GPU

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

8192

96

TMUs

256

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

46.21 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

115.2 GPixel/s

69.31 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.49 TFLOPS

2.218 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.75 TFLOPS

69.31 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

3.686 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

GM204-995-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Generation 12.5

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

28 nm

Process Size

10 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

500W

300 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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