Intel Arctic Sound 1T vs NVIDIA GRID K2
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 1T and 4GB VRAM GRID K2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arctic Sound 1T 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Arctic Sound 1T
+383%
11.06 TFLOPS
GRID K2
2.289 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
May 2013
Xe Graphics
Generation
GRID
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1229GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
-
-
6144
Shading Units
1536
192
TMUs
128
96
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
8 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
86.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.84 GPixel/s
172.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
95.36 GTexel/s
22.12 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
11.06 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.289 TFLOPS
2.765 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
95.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
225W
750 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Arctic Sound
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-895-A2
Generation 12.5
Architecture
Kepler
Intel
Foundry
TSMC
10 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
190 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2.175
-
CUDA
3.0
6.5
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
