NVIDIA GRID K260Q vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T
We compared two Professional market GPUs: 2GB VRAM GRID K260Q and 16GB VRAM Arctic Sound 2T to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GRID K260Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)
Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1229GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GRID K260Q
2.289 TFLOPS
Arctic Sound 2T
+503%
13.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2013
Release Date
Jan 2021
GRID
Generation
Xe Graphics
Professional
Type
Professional
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1229GB/s
Render Config
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-
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1536
Shading Units
7680
128
TMUs
240
32
ROPs
120
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-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
95.36 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
216.0 GTexel/s
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FP16 (half)
27.65 TFLOPS
2.289 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.82 TFLOPS
95.36 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
3.456 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
500W
550 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
Arctic Sound
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Kepler
Architecture
Generation 12.5
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
28 nm
Process Size
10 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
190 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
