NVIDIA GRID K520 vs Intel Arctic Sound 2T

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We compared two Professional market GPUs: 4GB VRAM GRID K520 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 K520 's Advantages

Lower TDP (225W vs 500W)

Intel Arctic Sound 2T 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

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

6144 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GRID K520

2.289 TFLOPS

Arctic Sound 2T +503%

13.82 TFLOPS

GRID K520

VS

Arctic Sound 2T

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

GRID

Generation

Xe Graphics

Professional

Type

Professional

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1229GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

7680

128

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

120

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

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

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Arctic Sound

-

GPU Variant

-

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

Board Design

225W

TDP

500W

550 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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