Intel Arctic Sound-M vs NVIDIA GRID K2

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound M 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-M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GRID K2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arctic Sound M +544%

14.75 TFLOPS

GRID K2

2.289 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound M

VS

GRID K2

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

May 2013

Data Center GPU

Generation

GRID

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

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

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

8192

Shading Units

1536

256

TMUs

128

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

115.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.84 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

95.36 GTexel/s

29.49 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.289 TFLOPS

3.686 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

95.36 GFLOPS

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

Board Design

500W

TDP

225W

900 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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